É triste ver um projeto ambicioso como este, desenvolvido por uma equipe pequena em um intervalo de 8 anos ser avacalhado por avaliações negativas de gente que:
1- Jogou pouco;
2- Nâo gosta de puzzles;
3- Não sabe o que é um jogo de puzzles;
4- Tem preguiça mental ou não consegue tirar conclusões do abstrato;
5- Espera se tratar de Braid 2, por ser um jogo de Jonathan Blow;
6- Acha que todo "First Person" deve vir acompanhado de "Shooter";
7- Denomina como "pretencioso" um jogo quando ele aborda temas filosóficos;
8- Acha que o jogo se trata de um adventure e tem Myst como unica referência.

Eu sei, eu concordo que as pessoas tem gostos diferentes, visões divergentes sobre assuntos e suas opiniões devem ser respeitadas; mas é aí que mora o problema. Como alguém pode querer botar em prova a qualidade de algo que, em primeira instância nem cabe no gosto dela? É como se eu, que não gosto de Death Metal, resolvesse escrever uma resenha do novo album da banda Cannibal Corpse.

O fato é que "The Witness" é feito para um nicho muito específico: jogadores que apreciam descobrir, explorar, aprender por conta própria e enfrentar puzzles complexos que desafiam a mente.

Pronto, desabafado, não vou me prolongar mais, bora para a análise.

O jogo foi desenvolvido pelo estúdio Thekla, atual equipe de Jonathan Blow, criador de Braid. Como Braid, este é um jogo que envolve puzzles, mecânicas variadas dentro de um mesmo tema, uma história discreta nas entrelinhas e diversos mistérios. As semelhanças terminam por aí.

The Witness se passa em uma ilha recheada de puzzles e mistérios para quem tem curiosidade em descobrir. Todos os puzzles partem da mesma mecânica, e esta mecânica vai variando conforme o seu progresso. Os puzzles são os únicos objetos que você interage no jogo, e em muitas ocasiões eles são usados como os mecanismos que abrem portas ou movimentam elevadores. Como a ilha é livremente explorável, muitas vezes é possível que você se depare com um puzzle que você não irá saber resolver de imediato; se for um puzzle visivelmente complexo, é possível que ainda não seja a hora para você o enfrentar. O jogo não dá nenhuma instrução de como a mecânica funciona. Jonathan Blow, como explica em diversas entrevistas, construiu os puzzles gradativamente complexos com o intuito que o próprio jogador descubra como funciona cada um de seus elementos.

A jogabilidade é simples, o seu personagem não pula, agacha, atira, sequer tem inventário ou coleta objetos. Você pode apenas andar, correr e ativar/desativar seu cursor para resolver os puzzles.

Graficamente o jogo conta com belos visuais. Obviamente o intuito do estúdio Thekla não era atingir gráficos realistas e sim um estilo levemente cartunizado, com cores vívidas, relevos não texturizados, e modelagens com poucas faces. Mesmo assim cenários e construções são bastante detalhados e as folhagens são variadas e com volume.

The Witness não tem trilha sonora, o que sinceramente não me incomodou. Confesso que fiquei levemente chateado, principalmente depois do trailer com música de Zoë Keating, uma violoncelista aos moldes de Jami Sieber, esta responsável pela maior parte das músicas usadas em Braid. Em suas explorações você vai ser acompanhado pelo som da natureza ao seu redor, do vento, do mar, o estalar das folhagens, o ranger dos objetos de madeira, o chiado dos objetos eletrônicos e os ecos dos ambientes fechados.

O jogo foi desenvolvido com um carinho e cuidado extremamente especiais como se vê em pouquíssimos jogos. Parece que cada detalhe do cenário foi talhado manualmente, cada vértice e cada plano com um propósito. Eu posso parecer estar exagerando, mas uma coisa que você vai perceber é que "ponto de vista" é algo crucial neste jogo; um objeto que visto de um lado parece apenas uma pedra de outro é obviamente uma tartaruga, e aquilo que só parece galhos de árvore, visto meio de lado forma um pássaro voando. São detalhes que óbviamente não adicionam nada na jogabilidade, mas mostram o esmero da equipe em não apenas fazer um jogo de gráficos bonitos e cores vibrantes, mas sim um jogo que esconde segredos a cada perspectiva.

讲真，这游戏对我来说太枯燥，玩不下去（至少在现在）。
我以为自己对braid疯狂的喜爱已足以去欣赏任何游戏艺术类型，但在这个游戏面前我还是败了。事实无情地证明，我还是俗人一个，不玩页游手游并不代表我能抵御收集、成就、斯金纳箱式的诱惑。我还是那只小白鼠。

这个赞，不是给游戏，而是给我心目中最出色的游戏制作人之一，吹叔Jonathan Blow的。

他是一个偏执狂，也只有偏执狂才能用这么久的时间，做出这款完完全全践行他的游戏哲学理念的游戏。他是一个牛人，才有如此强的执行力，所以这款游戏完成度如此之高，以至于脱离了实验品的范畴，成为了艺术品，而且是艺术先锋。
反新手教学、反导航、反任务列表、反浮华的声光电、反成就系统、反激励机制……吹叔几乎反对一切让当今主流游戏成功的因素，他认为游戏的本质应该是学习，你从游戏得到的唯一的快乐也应该是学习的快乐，而不是隐藏的金币或者月亮（没错，他超级反感马里奥，而那偏偏也是我的最爱[手动捂脸]）。

所以他删掉了所有的提示教学，删掉了所有激励机制，你解开一个谜题也只不过能进入一个更大的区域而已，绝对不会有任何奖励反馈。这对我们大多数习惯了回馈鼓励的玩家来说，简直是痛苦而难以忍受的（包括我）。

一遍一遍地连线解谜，没有任何奖励，那人们为什么要玩它，这游戏的意义在哪里？这就是吹叔为什么要花八年时间来做游戏的缘故，他把一个再简单不过的连线游戏拔高成了一座宏伟的高峰。

一开始你只需要从左到右画一条线，门就打开了，于是你明白，“连线可以打开机关”；

然后你需要绕开一些障碍，于是你学会了这招并应用到后面几个谜题；

接着，你碰到一个误导项，连接后门并没有开，于是你开始思考为什么。“噢，原来不同的连法能让不同的导线通电”，你又学会了一项知识，并且还能用在别处；

再然后，你看着一片漆黑的面板心里想着这tm玩个毛线，一转头看到身后那块一模一样的面板，“会不会是镜像路径？”你试了一下，“噢！可以的！”

接下来，你来到一片桃林，直觉告诉你提示就在附近，说不定就是这棵桃树……

是的，游戏才进行了一个小时，但你已经进化了。你能解开一个小时前你看到却解不开的题目了。就是这种能力的提高，让人神往不已。我也初步体会到这种从未有过的头脑进化的乐趣感。

但是对我来说，也到此为止了。后面的题目越来越难，也越来越隐蔽，学习成本也更高。如果我还在读书，或许能像做数学习题一般一个一个慢慢去啃，但现在的我明显没这个精力了。多数玩家更希望玩脑筋急转弯而不是数学习题集，因此尽管它的谜题设计比马里奥奥德赛的藏月亮更高明，维度更广，但却无法成为多数人的选择。

我不会向好友们无脑推荐这游戏，因为它不适合大部分人。但我双手赞同游戏想表达的意图。所谓第九艺术的发展，绝对需要这种类型的游戏。为吹叔疯狂打call。

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2022.4.15 轮回结局通关留念
时隔数年，今年重新拾起挑战游戏的决心。经历两个月，50小时+时长，今天终于通关，太不容易了。
能打动我的游戏很多，但《见证者》不同，这是为数不多能影响到我世界观和现实行为的游戏之一。尽管已经通关，它带给我的思考还在继续。可以说，在解谜以及哲学思辨领域，《见证者》真正做到了天花板级别的优秀。
《见证者》的难度和故意为之的不友善度决定了它不可能适合所有人，但它毫无疑问是我心中的不朽丰碑。

我是一个医生，总有一些小孩因为乱吃东西被送来急诊，我就打开这个游戏给小孩子玩，差不多10分钟左右，乱吃的东西就被吐出来了，但是院长把我开除了，md医院还怎么赚钱！0.0

Idealna pozycja dla masochistów własnego umysłu - prosta mechanika, wymagające zagadki, genialne wykonanie!

Na Steamie jest mnóstwo negatywnych recenzji - głównie od osób, które spodziewały się, że The Witness będzie przygodówką z elementami logicznymi. Błąd. Inni zafiksowali się na teorii, że TW to kolejne Myst. Błąd. The Witness to gra unikalna - od koncepcji, przez wykonanie, po gradacyjny poziom trudności. To gra, w której największą nagrodą za rozwiązywanie łamigłówek jest SATYSFAKCJA z ich rozwiązania. Nie zbierasz tutaj golda, punktów, expów czy innych jagódek. Jeśli po rozwiązaniu zagadki nie czujesz ekscytacji porównywalnej z odkryciem nowego pierwiastka chemicznego, widocznie nie jest to gra dla Ciebie.

The Witness to gra, w której JEDYNĄ mechaniką i sposobem na interakcje jest rysowanie linii na setkach rozsianych po bezludnej (?) wyspie panelach (choć nie tylko). Brzmi trywialnie? Powinno. Ten banalny koncept został bowiem ubrany w świetne pomysły: zabawy cieniem, perspektywą czy grę świateł. Gra nie posiada wyrazistej fabuły - historię szkicują audiologi, które można znaleźć w zakamarkach rozsianych po mapie. Pozostawia to dużo miejsca do własnych interpretacji - jedni uznają to za lenistwo twórców, inni za świetne posunięcie. Szczerze? Prędzej posądzę ślimaka o bycie ekstrawertykiem niż Jonathana Blowa (twórcę Braida) o bycie leniwym.

To bardzo często poruszany wątek. "37€ za grę indie o rysowaniu linii?! Ktoś się chyba ujarał tymiankiem!" - krzyczą hejterzy. Szczerze? Mnie też z początku przybił ten próg cenowy. Ale do czasu. Pisząc tę recenzję mam nabitych 15h gry, lecz już po kilku wiedziałem, że nie będę żałował zakupu. Dlaczego? Po pierwsze - to, że jest to gra "indie" w żaden sposób nie determinuje ceny! Dostałem w pełni działający produkt. Dopracowany, płynny, bez bugów, bez patchy, bez DLC. Nawet moja dziewczyna (która, zaznaczam, nie lubi gier logicznych!) wciągnęła się jak skarpetka w rurę odkurzacza. Tak powinny wyglądać premiery gier. Wiem, za co zapłaciłem.

edit: Podobno jest sporo problemów z kartami od AMD. Na kartach od nVidii crashów brak.

+ Świetnie zaprojektowane łamigłówki
+ Gradacyjny poziom trudności
+ W pełni otwarty świat, ograniczony jedynie Twoją wiedzą o nim
+ Genialnie zaprojektowana wyspa, w której nawet układ koron drzew ma znaczenie
+ Kolorowa, ciesząca oko grafika
+ Mnóstwo sekretnych miejsc
+ Zabawa na długie godziny (40-60 lub więcej)

(Jako że osobiście nie mam się do czego przyczepić, wymienię jedynie rzeczy, których mi brakuje)
- Pływanie łodzią powinno mieć opcję "fast travelu", czyli natychmiastowego przenoszenia w wybrane punkty na mapie
- Brak procentowego licznika postępu (w zamian jest licznik rozwiązanych zagadek)
- W wersji PC jedynie 2 osiągnięcia :(

Lubisz trudne zagadki? Rozwiązywanie ich sprawia Ci satysfakcję? Szukasz czegoś na kilkadziesiąt ładnych godzin? The Witness jest zatem grą dla Ciebie ;)

9+/10

如果在5年前，有人告诉我你可以在一款游戏中看到塔科夫斯基的乡愁的片段，五分钟时间，没有对话，没有配乐，一个长镜头，一个男人端着一支燃着的蜡烛从水池的一端走到另一端。我一定不会相信。
虽然这个游戏我已经买了很久，但是一直都没有机会静下来体验。直到几天前玩了之后才觉得相见恨晚。走出最初的通道，环顾四周，我意识到这个游戏已经打破了一般解密游戏的线性设计。
游戏最初的半个小时，玩家最早接触到的地点是一个村庄，尝试解开村庄中的任意一个谜题在这个阶段都是不可能的任务，但是随着玩家探索其他地点，完成其他关卡。玩家会意识到原来看似不可能的谜题其实并没有这么困难。没有任何的教学和指引，游戏流程中的学习曲线却甚至比有教学和指引的线性游戏更加自然。解谜失败在一般的解密游戏中是一种惩罚体验。而在本作品中，解谜的失败是对于探索的一种鼓励。如果有一个谜题你无论如何都无法解开，在这个游戏中只有几种可能性。1：你没有掌握你应该掌握的线索。2：你对于你的周边环境探索得不够透彻。3：你对于该谜题的机制不够了解。这个游戏中不存在必须要用枚举法才能解开的关卡，所有谜题的背后必然有其逻辑性。探索之后，玩家对于游戏机制，周边环境会有新的认知。某个符号的作用，周边环境中隐藏的线索。在探索的过程中，玩家有时会对之前卡住的关卡产生顿悟。而一个解谜游戏可以提供最好的体验就是这种：啊~我知道这关怎么过了，然后马上回到之前卡住的地方继续解谜的感觉。认知之后是玩家对于谜题的解构。如果把每一个地点视作一个关卡，每一个关卡中有多个部分，每一个部分都可以视作有一个主题。每一个主题里的谜题有着相似但却不同的解法。而对于关卡做出解构的却不是玩家，而是游戏设计师。在一个关卡中，先给玩家呈现一种谜题类型（4-5道谜题），之后给予玩家相似但却不一样的谜题类型（4-5道谜题），在关卡的最后把这两种谜题结合在一起。创造出一种玩家似曾相识，却又不会让玩家觉得重复枯燥的体验。有心的朋友可以在本作品中看到大量这样的设计。当玩家在关卡的最后卡关，你可以探索关卡，回到之前的关卡观察已经解开的谜题，他们往往会给予玩家灵感。

探索——认知——解构——探索

这是本作品中的核心游戏机制，也是本作品的主题。说到The Witness的主题，大多数玩家会意识到这个游戏根本没有剧情，但是不像其他没有剧情的解密游戏，完成一个关卡后可以直接点击下一关，本作品有着一个细节丰富的开放世界，充满了隐藏内容，隐喻，视觉欺骗和彩蛋。（之后我会详细说明）


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整部作品可以说是对于一个个体的人或者人类作为一个物种对于这个世界认知的隐喻。游戏的开始，一条长长的黑暗走廊，没有指引，没有声音，没有对于这个世界的知识。对于存在的认知只局限于一片漆黑，一道门，一条走廊和一个谜题。打破这一僵局的方法是学会最基础的解谜方法，一条横线。打开第一道门，如同人类学会了使用火，一个新的世界呈现的玩家面前。但是对于玩家而言，这个世界依然是个谜，如同史前人类即使学会了用火，他们却不知道闪电是如何形成的，太阳为何升起落下，海水为何涨潮落潮。于是玩家就像我们的祖先一样对这个世界开始探索。在这个过程中他们会遇到无法克服的困难，学会新的技能，对世界有更深刻的认识，提出疑问，理论，假设。玩家在游戏中找到的录音笔可以说是证明了这一点。有兴趣的朋友可以把游戏中所有的录音内容找来听。有趣的是，这些录音内容并不会对这个游戏世界做出任何解释。这些录音更像是人类历史上最伟大的思想家，科学家，哲学家以及宗教人物的想法集合。爱因斯坦，老子，庄子，佛陀，理查德费曼， 威廉·金顿·克利福德··· 如果把玩家解读为人，把游戏世界解读为这个世界，这些录音更像是人在人类历史上留下的人文遗产的回响。游戏中的地点多是人造的遗址，我们可以将其解读为不同文明留下的遗迹，而其残破的现状是现代科技的进步与新的价值观将旧时代的遗物取代。游戏的过程中，每完成一个不同的地点一束光会照射到一座山峰上，山的顶峰可以解读为人类文明现有的巅峰，每一束光代表着不同的文明对于人类现代文明的贡献。山顶上的箱子是所有文明的聚合，就像玩家试图寻找游戏的目的却一无所获。山顶上的人试图用箱子里的东西揭开宇宙终极的问题。然而到了山里，玩家可以找到墙上挂着一些游戏设计原画，如同现代文明在某种程度上理解了宇宙的基本概念。但是到了最后，本以为可以就这样回答所有问题，找到一切的答案，却发现我们的无知比已知扩张得快得多。到达最后的目的地，却发现自己身在一条漆黑的走廊。没有声音，没有指引，走廊的尽头有一道谜题···

探索——认知——解构——探索

这是我个人的解读，而我在本文中写下这些解读却是包括在设计师Jonathan Blow的设计蓝图之中。

文学，彩蛋和解谜游戏

当你完成游戏中的一个限时挑战，你会获得一个谜题的答案，把这个答案输入到一个风车的地下室可以解锁一段音频。一段2002年的游戏讲座，有兴趣的朋友可以听一下这段完整的音频，整段音频超过半个小时。这段音频的内容是关于人类艺术史上的彩蛋和游戏中的彩蛋。比如巴赫在他的音乐中隐藏14和41两个数字，最早的游戏彩蛋等等。但是让我最感兴趣的是一段关于莎士比亚的轶事。从莎士比亚死后，西方文学界从来没有停止过试图从他的文字中找到隐藏的含义，300年间，关于莎士比亚作品中的隐藏内容多到可以塞满一座图书馆。结果到头来，所有的解读都被却认为胡扯。同样的事情发生在圣经上。而这莎士比亚的作品与圣经是西方文学史，甚至艺术史上影响力最大的作品之一。这段讲座中真正打动我的，是那位讲师对于此的看法。
以下是对于他的看法额的概括：
电子游戏是一个年轻的艺术形式，从世界上第一个游戏的诞生到现在，不过50余年。比起文学，音乐，建筑，雕塑，绘画，戏剧。电子游戏不过是一个婴孩。艺术史上，每一部伟大的作品，在后世都被学者分析，学习。人试图从这些作品中找到更深层次的含义。原因很简单，这些作品令人震撼。而令人震撼的作品，其影响力不仅仅可以延续几年。几十年，几百年，上千年。而游戏的诞生不过区区50余年。做出令人震撼的游戏，其影响力会让人不自禁的想要从中找到更深层次的含义。彩蛋就是这样一个东西，让后世的人能够从古旧的作品里找到新的东西。
以上是他的看法，我建议有兴趣的朋友去听完整个讲座。
回到本作品。以下是我对本作品的评价。

这是一部震撼人心的作品。10/10

通关后表示，这款游戏和braid一样惊艳到了我，虽然很慢热，也有因为头晕很久没玩，但是再度回来通关时有一种释然感。还是和braid的星星一样，11道激光拿完后我不知道该怎么找隐藏要素，实在忍不住就去看攻略了（笑），然后知道了音乐盒入口，不过谜题肯定还是会自己尝试解的。那些石柱纹我感觉我只能不经意发现才能收集了，录音带也一样。看完放映室的影片后，我还去找了塔科夫斯基的乡愁看了一遍，感觉很合我胃口，准备去把老塔的其他电影看一看。作为一个没怎么写过评测的玩家，不知不觉写了这么多，真的感觉到the witness的一种意境，一种独特的匠心，一种明亮的孤独。

My favorite game in a decade, but it's not for everyone. It's a no-tutorial kind of game. Each puzzle type is introduced gradually so you can get the hang of it before tackling the complex stuff, but you must thrive in self-teaching to get that far. The puzzles, though, are awesome. They're all based on a simple concept but that concept is twisted around and turned on its head in so many ways you won't believe it each time another variation comes up.

Beware of reviews with < 10 hours. You can "beat the game" in probably five hours. The real magic, though, is in a secret that adds 40 hours of gameplay. The trouble is, you have to enjoy the puzzles enough to get to the point where you discover the extra gameplay. Not for everyone

+精心设计的场景
+极具创意的谜题
+解谜与探索的节奏交错控制得很好
+令人惊叹的隐藏要素

-没有BGM
-场景互动性低
-过分考验记忆力
-某些设定可能会使玩家烦躁




首先来谈谈画面，本作的画面算不上精致，但给人整体的视觉感受很好，整个场景限于一个小岛之上，用色大胆鲜艳并且较为协调，无论是自然场景还是建筑的设计都极为考究。

接着说明一下音效。本作没有任何BGM，无论是解谜过程还是探索过程中哪怕是结局时都没有，这就导致玩家很容易在本作中感受到一种很折磨人的孤寂。不过另一方面，《The Witness》也包含了纯净的自然音效，包括水流，潮汐，走在路面上的沙沙声以及风声（也许？），不过没有更多了，多数时候这些若有若无的音效只是增添了玩家的落寞而已。




在普通的解谜游戏里，你只需要走到一关的谜题前，看看你的道具，你的目标，周围的环境，然后就开动脑筋吧，在数次尝试后你就会找到正确的解法，你大喊着“oh，i am clever!”然后进入下一关......大抵如此，然而《The Witness》并不是这样。

在《The Witness》的那座岛上，正如你所看到的那样，一切都是完全摊开来的，毫无保留。除了最后的山顶区域以外，之前的11个区域你可以按任何你愿意的顺序解开，限制你的只有你的大脑。但很遗憾的是，这11个区域并不是完全独立的，他们互相关联。作为一个有目的性的解谜游戏，当你面对着散落在场景中一个又一个的难题，你既解不开面前这个也不知道哪能找到你能解开的，更不知道下一个在哪，这种状况实在是另人抓狂。不过当我发现这个开放式游戏的“规则”后一切便豁然开朗了。现在来看，开放性探索与解谜，在这里相得益彰。

为什么这么说？




本作中最主要的出题方式，就是搞出各种莫名其妙的图案在你遇到的谜题画线板上，你必须按照图案对应的规则划线......但是并没有相应的规则介绍。

看看本章的小标题，你需要做的是“学习”。

在《The Witness》中的学习方式不是传授似的，而是一种自我学习方式，或者说得更准确一点，我们可以把这种机制称之为“自我探索”。让我们重新回到出生点来看看，游戏中的第一道谜题其实教会了你最重要的东西，那就是究竟哪些是谜题，哪些不是，之后这一“知识”便贯穿游戏的始终。

在您的游戏过程中切记不要截个图上网问别人“这个符号是什么意思”，如果你不理解，首先，尝试着带着疑问解谜，也就是试错，试着从众多错误中找到唯一正确的，或是从众多正确中找到不允许的路径，然后，尝试理解。如果你仍然不能理解，在每个区域的外围岛的边缘处为你准备了一艘小船，船上有一张小岛的完整地图，几乎每一区域对应的图案都被标记到了地图上，你需要做的是先去对应的区域“学习”。

当你来到一个区域，也许你能很简单地发现其中的规则，但往往这只是最初级的规律，不仅不完善，而且你的认知中很可能包含着误解，这一点在“树屋”这段体现得很好。当你使用刚发现的规则尝试解开更复杂的谜题时，你会发现各种符号的规则并不如你原先所想象的那样简单，这时你便要尝试完善并修改你原先的判断。而这正好恰似人类对客观世界的认识过程，由宏观低速世界的表象开始，一步一步认识到世界的本质，也就是“总结——从新现象中发现漏洞——结合之前的发现重新总结”这样一个过程。JB用独特的逻辑意象——划线重现了人类认识世界之路的挫折与荣光，对此我们还有什么可抱怨的呢？




《The Witness》成功地将惯性思维与创新思维结合到了一起。

当你找到了第一个谜题发现了其方法轻易地将其解开，你便掉入了作者的陷阱。如果说图形谜题只是不断地变换形式逼迫你思考的话，环境谜题则是能数次颠覆你认知的存在。当然了，规则始终不会变，但形式会越来越疯狂与难以捉摸，可以说每个迷题都在不断颠覆你在之前所积累下的经验，让你重新观察，重新思考。在这里作者一直坚持不懈地，用他的脑洞提醒着我们一件事以防我们的大脑松散下来，那便是......

别用惯性思维，别用惯性思维。

我要求的是创意，《The Witness》给我了，但它还给了我更多。

如果说双线谜题会随着谜题本身的不断变化而带给我们持续性的“小惊喜”的话，类似俄罗斯方块这种谜题我们在到下一个发生变化的区域之前可能就会被谜题本身的难度卡住。我盯着那块板子划了半个小时，错，错，还是错。这个板子上所有的规则我已经学会了，可我就是解不开，这时那种烦躁感便又回到了我身上。

很无聊吗？或许是你搞错了。

想想作者为何要设置那么多的变化，是让你思考，让你思考新的规则，让你思考新形式下的出路，所以当你被卡住时，你要做的还是思考，而不是去试图穷举（也许你自己把这叫做“不断尝试”）。

这里的谜题，都不是随意设置的，所有的一切都是在强迫你开启大脑的潜能。我看着那道题，分析，排除，一步步缩小范围......最终我解开了，靠的不是穷举，更不是灵光乍现，而是属于我的，智慧。




JB是在做这样一件事，把一切抽象与哲学化。玩家的理解和思维能力是如此的低下，以至于作者不得不精心构思出一套逻辑体系，用重现科学探索的方式设置好谜题，好引导玩家发现游戏真正的主题。是的，解谜从来不是作者真正要你干的，只是用解谜的形式来引导你比较方便而已。

听一听散落在游戏中的录音吧，是不是觉得这些录音与解谜的过程相得益彰？别搞错了这不是为了让你在解谜累了的时候无聊听听解闷的，请记住一点作者不会做额外的事情，所有这些连同表谜题里谜题一道只是为了将你们引向最终要你们干的事——思考。

作者用近乎偏执的方式地创造出了这么一个世界，制定出严苛的规则并去掉细枝末节，就是为了将本作打磨成完美的艺术品。这是一部关于学习和探索的指南。无论是题板谜题，还是隐藏要素，皆是为了让玩家学习，学习如何认知与感悟世界。我们将学会如何从世俗的纷繁中脱离而出，追寻造物之上的意志。

世界的最终答案是什么？可能根本就没有什么答案。我们穷其一生的思考与探索，可能最终得到的也只是寥落的只言片语。我们了解了世界，描绘了世界，却无法改变世界。最终这个世界仍像最初的样子，保持着神秘，并且，维持着冷酷。

微弱而短暂的温暖过后，人们便会想起寒冷才是这个世界的主基调。

但，请永远不要放弃希望。

“想要当一个合格的IGN测评员，最首要的是要有个好身体。”
——沃兹基·硕德
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The Witness：对于不晕3D的健康人的一款解谜神作。
本篇较多个人感受及私货预警，本文含有题型剧透预警（不含具体符号释义）
这个游戏剧透题型可能会破坏一部分游戏体验，未通关者请酌情观看。

本着没事玩俩一笔画，排解我写文章填坑龟速的郁结，我打开了这个游戏。
进入游戏以后，我发现这个游戏从头到尾都不会以字面的方式给出任何关于游戏进行的提示。随着解开谜题越来越多，我也渐渐对这个游戏有了更深入的认识……游戏里，几乎每一道题都有与上一道题不同的地方，当自己还为想出一个精妙的解答沾沾自喜时，下一道题就似乎看穿你似的使这个方法行不通。解出一道题后，点亮了些什么或者连接到下一道题，给人一种很兴奋很愉悦的感觉，接连解出题目、直到完成一个区域的题目而解锁黄色盒子时，那种成就感让人沉醉不已。

这个游戏的题目粗略地可以分成两类，

1. 在实践中探索规律，从失败中总结真理
其中一类题型，我自己给它命名为符号规则题。题板上各种符号都有各自的意义，而每个区域最开始需要点亮的题板，其实都是用来学习这些规则的，当你答错了的时候题板还能给出提示。
最巧妙的地方在于这些练习题不少是多解的，而且简单元素少，这导致几道题之内你可能推导出来错误的规则。但是遇到一些复杂的单解问题，你的错误规律就会不适用。这个时候我们回到初始的题板，重复试一试，再总结出别的共性，说不定就能解决题目而得知真正的规则。
其实这就是我们探索世界，或者说做研究的时候的那种方式：实验寻找规律——更多事例验证——失败后重新总结规律——往复得到真理
这和我们认识这个世界的基本方法，或者说是-科学-的方法，如出一辙。

2. 从大自然中悟得真谛
遇到一块空空如也的题板，你是否会不知所措、心急如焚？其实不要紧张，往四周看看或者退后几步，可能就能找到现成的答案。有的是周围的树指引着，有的是幽静中的鸟鸣诉说着，还有不妨利用一下阳光，看看无数的前人（或者轮回的自己？）是如何解答的。仔细观察，换一个角度看看吧，但是首先内心要平静下来。环境谜题设置的场所，大多都是幽静的竹林寺院，或者无人的遗迹，这既可以使心灵平静，又似乎有什么隐喻在其中。
这样不断观察，从大自然中悟出真谛的方法，则更像古代一些隐士和修行者，大概恕我冒昧猜测，这就是某盘录音带里所说的-禅宗-吧。

这样的两种方式交替出现，两种都理解才能解开所有谜题的设计，加上部分磁带的影片的辅佐，不得不说在精妙的谜题之后，藏着作者的深刻哲学思想和世界观。这使得游戏又增添了不少深度和底蕴。

关于这个游戏当然其它优点很多，但是我能弄懂的大概就只有以上一点点，不过你们看，就像我这样悟性低的人都能在这个游戏的大部分时间里得到很好的体验，所以我鼓励喜欢解谜游戏和喜欢哲学的大家可以来试一试～

美中不足：游戏不顾及玩家感受
-以下评论涉及强主观性和个体差异-

虽然这个游戏在前半段给了我堪称完美的体验，但是不凑巧的是，游戏进行到中盘，给我的体验越来越糟糕，后期只能勉强支撑着玩下来，直到最后在通关之后，即使我还没做完黑石柱的谜题，我都不想再次打开这个游戏。

当然，最主要的一点可能是比较多人有的一种情况：晕3D。
作为一个熟练的废土垃圾王，我本以为晕3D这个词和我应该是无缘的，但是不巧的是，我竟然晕这个游戏。我倒也不是很严重，玩的时候几乎不影响，但奇怪的是玩完以后就头晕想吐，要休息两三个小时才能恢复。不过呢，晕3D倒是一开始也没有很影响我，我冒着玩完很难受的风险每天玩，还乐此不疲乐在其中。
至于为什么后期越来越玩不下去，可能就是我关于这个游戏的一点小抱怨了。
我做11个区域的时候，很巧的是我先做完了所有规则谜题，再做的环境谜题。规则谜题真的很漂亮，规则的推导、难易度的递增、逆向思维的运用、一题多解的巧妙利用等方面让我赞不绝口。但是来到环境谜题，情况就没那么好了。

- 环境谜题本身的特性决定这类题型做出成就感小、做不出挫败感大。
因为环境谜题比起符号规则谜题来说，学规则既更简单，又更难。没有在某个角度看一眼的话，可能一个系列的题都不知道怎么回事，但一旦发现怎么回事以后，同一题型变化又不太大，做来做去颇有重复的感觉。而且这类题比起思考更强调观察，没看（听）到的时候更多。
这样的情况下，在本身大目标不会很早知道、也不明确的这个游戏，题目的奖励机制实际来自于题目本身，一旦题目无法提供足够的成就感作为奖励，玩家很容易陷入无趣的境地。
我来亲身示范一个例子：
我在通关前后做了480多道题板谜题，无一参考攻略，但是有一道题我用部分枚举硬做的，不做此区域进行不下去。但是不管怎样，因为这道题是环境谜题，我是不会承认我智商捉急的，哼（傲娇脸）

- 环境设计不考虑玩家身体状况。
这一点其实是这个游戏让我难得愤怒了一次的点。接近游戏尾声的时候，我遇到了几组让人很难受的题。其中最让我觉得不妥的是一个不停在闪的题目！这个游戏色彩饱和度本来就高，然后多色快速闪烁，还要在这样的题板上做题目！虽然我并没有比在普通题板上做这样一道题多花多少时间，可是这给我很不舒适的感觉，做完以后眼睛看现实中的事物都花了。其实比起一些容易引人不适的背景干扰，我更宁愿作者换成一些别的设计，比如这组题板对面那一组就很精巧。设置过于引人不适的环境感觉并没有必要，还影响游戏体验。

直到玩到结局，实在是我悟性不高，看到以固定视角飞跃小岛，时间倒流，最后一切归于梦境，重新开始这样的结局，我还是接受不能。游戏似乎没有二周目设定，搞个这样的结局还在存档里真的归零解题数目，似乎真要玩家重新开始游戏，对于一个没有重复游玩性的游戏给玩家感觉很不舒服，管你是不是想说尘世如梦、四大皆空什么的。不过幸好在结局前似乎有自动存档，没有来得及完成收集或某些谜题还可以读档回去。

难得想瞎评个分：
（9.5-x)/10
x为对此游戏的生理不适程度，要是游戏流程前期就感觉难受的话，后面只会更难受。
身体不舒服还是最好别玩了，前半部分比较静态还能养老，后半部分要盯着令人不舒服的画面很久呢，养好的身体都废了。

另外第二个成就我历史最好纪录还差一题，到最后音乐盒这里我确实看攻略了，不过也没太大用，题还是随机的。但是最近真的没力气玩限时谜题了，等我休息好了身体好点了再挑战吧。
做完这个成就我就再也不打开这个游戏了。

There is a general dichotomy I have noticed when people talk about The Witness. There are people who adore the game, and there are people who hate it. There are people who view it as a pinnacle of the artform, and there are people who think it's pretentious garbage. Me? Personally? I find The Witness to be a brilliant game. But you might disagree.

The majority of The Witness is solving puzzles. A vast majority. They are good puzzles. They are thoroughly engaging and clever puzzles. Some of the twists on mechanics are outstanding and mindbending. Almost all the puzzles are designed in a way that make solving them impossible unless you understand the mechanics. They're the investment of the game, and they're truly fantastic. An amount of the puzzles, unfortunately, are designed in such a way that kind of throw colorblind people (in certain, specific areas) and tone deaf (or deaf people at all) people under the bus. Even if you aren't one of these, there is a possibility to get hung up because you don't pick up on what the designer wants you to pick up on, whether it be the perception of shapes, the perception of mechanics, or perception of the world. These, while often fun, put a lot of expectation on the player to perceive things like light and sound the same way as the designer, which is quite a burden for the player to bear. (Also, the ship puzzle sucks. You'll understand if you play it.)

Do you like puzzles? If you don't, do not play this game.

One thing I greatly appreciate about The Witness is how much of a learning experience it is. Many puzzles are based on rethinking mechanics you already thought you understood in completely different scenarios. In certain moments, I audibly exclaimed something like "Oh man!" at the new way I looked at things.

The other percentage of the experience consists of walking, and listening to audio tapes, and occasionally watching a video. The audio tapes are usually some thoughtful quote for you to chew on. The videos range from really interesting to... uncomfortable, honestly (four of them are neat, two of them are... just strange.) The Island itself (the location of the game) is colorful and beautiful. There are plenty of nice sights to see, and mystery to ponder, even if theres no real answer. It's a little boring, all of it, but it's pensive quiet time, and serves as a set for the secret second half of this game.

Because there's this other half to that percentage. I have a love-hate relationship with this half of the game. Without spoiling anything, I will call them "secret puzzles". They are not necessary to complete the game, and serve (unfortunately?) no mechanical purpose other than gratification. A lot of them are easy to find, but many are so out of nowhere and convoluted that it feels more like a directionless scavenger hunt. It might be the case that these secretive puzzles are intended to bring together players outside of the game to trade secrets (a la Zelda on the NES, or PT), in which case, the game succeeded. It's likely that it's the case that these are part of a kind-of meta narrative (something that becomes evident when watching these videos in the game)And that being said, some of these secret puzzles are jaw-dropping, even if I couldn't sleuth them out on my own. They are creative and unique, evoking those "Oh man!" responses frequently. But there is still that dissonance.

The Witness is a good game. If you don't like puzzles, don't play it. If you do like puzzles, maybe play it.

(This review kind of sucks but I wanted to say something. Whatever.)

Un videojuego U-N-I-C-O.
Una vez terminado The Witness uno se sorprende de la imaginación desmesurada necesaria para idear y desarrollar el que, y no me tiembla el pulso, es el juego ♥♥♥ los puzzles mas elaborados que he jugado nunca.
Ojo, tiene un fallo, que bajo mi punto de vista es gordisimo y es el que le impide llegar a ser uno de los mejores videojuegos de la historia, pero luego hablaré de esta tragedia.


En primer lugar, esta obra desde luego que no es para todo el mundo. No por ser mas inteligente o mas tonto, si no por que te va a exigir paciencia, BASTANTE paciencia, y también una muy buena dosis de imaginación. Paciencia por que los puzzles pueden llegar a ser bastante complejos. Si en un ámbito en 2D como ♥♥♥ Braid, Jonathan Blow ideó algunos de los mejores puzzles que ha dado los videojuegos, imaginad lo que han sido capaz de hacer en un entorno tridimensional y de mundo abierto... E imaginación, por que los los puzzles a veces son tan sutiles que tendrás que echarle imaginación e interpretar que es lo que se supone que quieren que hagas. Cuando Blow dijo que el juego tenia 600 y pico puzzles y que seria imposible terminarse el juego sin usar alguna guía, no mentía en absoluto.
El mapa esta medido al milímetro, pero hasta un punto enfermizo. En plan de que de verdad te preguntas lo difícil que debe de haber sido crear algunos puzzles (sobre todo los ambientales) por que de verdad que algunos están tan bien ideados que cuando los ves sonríes como un tonto.
Lo mismo que cuando te das cuenta de la lógica que tanto te esta costando encontrar... Y sí.. Aseguro que todo tiene una lógica aplastante... Pero dar ♥♥♥ ella puede ser complicado de cojones.
Básicamente lo que hace tan tan tan enorme al juego es la capacidad que tiene de hacerte pensar de formas que no creías que eras capaz de hacerte pensar xd, y de ver las cosas desde puntos de vista diferentes.

El juego es un sandbox, sin tiempos de carga, y SIN ciclo día/noche, que si lo hubiese implementado podría haber hecho incluso puzzles mas cabrones XD. Te sueltan en la isla y a partir de ahí estas solo, no te dicen absolutamente N-A-D-A de cual es tu cometido ni que tienes que hacer para superar el juego. En el juego hay unos 10 tipos de puzzles diferentes, repartidos en diferentes zonas, cada zona corresponde a un tipo de puzzle, y en tipo de puzzle empiezan por lo básico a modo de tutorial para que aprendas la lógica que te quieren explicar, para luego ir desarrollando la lógica, pero hay puzzles en los que "pierdes" la lógica, y te toca encontrarla de nuevo (imaginación). Luego los conocimientos aprendidos en las diferentes zonas los debes juntar todos y hacer puzzles que mezclan varios tipos de puzzles. Aquí es donde suele haber los cortocircuitos mentales XD.
Básicamente el juego trata de explicar algo tan "abstracto" como el aprendizaje, es como si te soltasen en un país cuyo idioma no hemos oído en nuestra vida, y ♥♥♥ unas pocas pinceladas vas atando cabos hasta que logras aprender y hablar el "idioma" de la isla. Es curiosa la sensación de perdido que tienes cuando empiezas el juego, y como cambia tu percepción cuando ya has entendido todas sus mecánicas. No obstante la gracia del juego es no usar guía, o usarla cuando no queda mas remedio, despues de estar horas atascado irremediablemente, pero vamos no dejarlo a primeras de cambio, por que si no el ejercicio mental y satisfacción personal se va a ver ridículamente potenciado.

Despues están los puzzles enviromentales, que te hacen jugar ♥♥♥ la perspectiva para encontrarlos ♥♥♥ los cuales rellenas unos "pilares" repartidos por el mapa (los cuales creo que realmente no sirven para nada (punto negativo), mas allá de la satisfacción personal de localizarlos todos.

Gráficamente el juego para ser indie es de los mejores apartados técnicos que se han hecho en un juego indie, la carga poligonal es muy alta, y las texturas pese a ser muy apastelosas tienen bastante buena definición. No es un apartado de 10 ni mucho menos, pero logra crear unos escenarios de postal. Además de un diseño artístico muy muy bueno.

El audio referente a los efectos de sonido es bastante bueno, y para algunos puzzles requeriremos de su calidad de audio para poder solventarlos, por lo que recomiendo usar un buen equipo de audio. Por contra la BSO es totalmente inexistente, solo hay una pista de audio en todo el juego que solo escucharemos en un macro puzzle opcional.

Bueno y después de lamida al falo de jonathan blow paso a su único (y gordisimo) punto negativo ,y es su historia...o su "no historia" pues la verdad es que al menos yo no me he enterado de una puta mierda en este aspecto. Si a este juego le hubiesen metido una historia y narrativa como Talos Principle habría sido directamente una obra maestra de la humanidad xd un hito a lo David de Miguel Angel, o alguna de las obras tan famosas de Da Vinci xd. Pero lamentablemente al igual que ocurría en Braid no hay por donde cogerlo. Por el escenario hay grabadoras escondidas ♥♥♥ "discursos" de científicos, descubridores, y escritores famosos, he encontrado casi todas y realmente no cuentan nada necesario para entender nada. Además de 6 vídeos (he encontrado 5) que hay repartidos por la isla (a cada cual mas raro y sin sentido, (ojo que hasta estos vídeos tienen puzzles durante su visionado)... Demasiado pedante y presuntuosa, no se... Considero que una historia que cuando terminas no tienes ni zorra de que coño te han querido contar es por que algo falla... A menos que haya que ser licenciado en psicología humana y ser un maestro en psicohistoria xdd. En este apartado sientes un poco como el "artista" que escupe sobre un cuadro, le mete unos manchurrones de rojo, marron y amarillo escurriéndose hasta el suelo, y le termina por clavar un martillo por el mango al cuadro, y te dice que eso es arte, y que si no lo entiendes es por que no tienes sensibilidad... XDD un poco así me hace sentir la "no historia" de the Witness.
Y es una pena, pues semejante obra maestra se merecía una historia a la altura, mas convencional y mas interesante, pues mas allá de los súper puzzles que posee el juego no hay mas. Si me dijesen que explicase de que va el juego argumentalmente de verdad que no tendría ni idea de que decir... Es mas... me gustaría saber si hasta el propio jonatahn blow le encuentra sentido alguno.

Lo dicho, si os gustan los juegos de puzzles ni lo dudéis... Eso si, si os aburren huid y no volváis la vista atrás, las 52 horas que he metido al juego (dejandome aun así bastantes puzzles opcionales) han sido una de las mas gratificantes experiencias que he vivido ♥♥♥ un juego, no me tiembla el pulso al considerarle casi una obra maestra si no llega a ser por su enorme punto suspenso (en mi opinión).
Para terminar en una comparación un pelin injusta, diré que como juego me quedo ♥♥♥ Talos Principle, que pese a que aunque tenga unos puzzles algo mas simples (por poco), tiene una historia miles de veces superior, pues ahí al menos entiendes lo que te quieren contar, es globalmente mas redondo, aunque los puzzles de The Witness juegan en otra liga.

“不久之后，甚至就在我们的有生之年，会有那么一个游戏设计，如同闪电一般照耀我们的文化，它很好辨识，它会是慷慨的，充满旺盛的创造力，令人眼花缭乱，学者们会花上数十年，甚至数个世纪对它进行分析，它会是美妙的，它会是令人颤栗的，它会是令人充满敬畏。”

almost as good as The Looker

The Witness 是一款很难向人推荐的游戏，就像我很难推荐一本唯美的高数习题集。

你或许会觉得我言过其实，请允许我从两个角度向你解释。

The Witness 与商业游戏的不同之处——

1. 弱化游戏进展。玩家既不知道目前需要解开多少谜题，也不知道一共有多少谜题。
2. 缺乏玩家奖励。游戏回报你的方式是更难的谜题和不一样的谜题。
3. 没有人物故事。比前作 Braid 更甚，一切都由玩家脑补。
4. 别谈主线任务。如果你抱着「寻回记忆」的设定去通关，请看条款2与条款3。

The Witness 与习题集的相似之处——

1. 知识要点是固定的，你要做的是运用它们。
2. 题目设计是万变的，没有一模一样的煎熬。
3. 难题的本质是绕圈，你需要换个角度思考。
4. 解题的关键是理解，终极是看透出题思路。

即便在玩通结局之后（约18小时、近400条普通谜题、以及各色隐藏谜题），我也不确定，The Witness 是否算一款好游戏。

- 你可以查到题目答案，但它只会让你下一题更难解。
- 你可以阅读详细攻略，但它只会让你错过世界细节。
- 你可以收看结局视频，但它只会让你好奇设计背景。

The Witness 总是从口袋里抽出更多谜题，而不是更多答案。

The Witness 总是把枯燥题目放在显眼处，把美妙思维放在隐蔽处。

这大概就是它独一无二的地方。

게임이 플레이어를 하나의 지적 생명체로서 대우하고 존중해주지만, 막상 나 자신이 지적 생명체가 아닌 것 같은 비참함을 느낄 수 있습니다. 저는 아마 지능이 없는 점균류 같은 게 아니었을까요.


장점:

- 퍼즐 게임으로서의 완성도와 밸런스 조절이 뛰어납니다. 트릭의 응용도가 깊으면서도 지나치게 어렵지는 않아요. 한참 붙잡고 있다가 해법을 깨닫는 순간, 무릎을 탁 치며 밀려오는 지적 쾌감과 함께 왠지 화가 나죠. 조나단 블로우에게 뇌를 겁탈당하는 느낌이 들거든요.

- 월드 디자인이 매력적이에요. 어디를 가야 하는지도 모르겠고 한 눈에 파악하기도 힘들지만, 그 불친절함과 막막함이 비선형적인 게임 구조와 맞물려서 탐험 - 학습 - 응용이라는 3단계 경험을 제공합니다. 이 경험이 꽤 즐거워요. 세세한 요소도 사방에 깔려 있어서 아직 뭐가 얼마나 더 있는지 짐작이 안 갈 정도에요.

그치만 겨우 메커니즘 학습해놨더니 바로 앞에서 히히 요건못풀지 병신아 하고 뒤통수를 치는 느낌의 퍼즐이 튀어나오는 건 시발 참아줬으면 합니다... 조나단 블로우......

- 비주얼이 좋아요. 부드러운 터치의 색감이나, 몽환적이고 비현실적인 풍경들이요. 앞서 언급한 월드 디자인과 맞물려서 시너지 효과를 냅니다. 이 예쁜 비주얼을 구석구석 보고 다니게 유도하는 퍼즐 겸 수집 요소 같은 것도 있어요. 그치만 이건 일부는 제 취향이니까 아니면 말고.

- 퍼즐 게임 좋아하시면 앞뒤 안 보고 사셔도 좋겠습니다.


그치만 이런 분들께는 별로 추천하지 않습니다:

- 머리 쓰는 퍼즐 게임은 싫다

- 정적이고 (엄격)(진지)(근엄)한 게임은 싫다

- 4만원짜리 미로 퍼즐을 사야 할 이유를 모르겠다

Quando eu comprei o The Witness, eu esperava um jogo de puzzle qualquer, mas depois de uns 10 minutos de jogo, eu percebi que eu estava muito errado. Você acorda sozinho em uma ilha estranha (muito bonita inclusive) e cheia de puzzles espalhados pelo mapa, você não sabe por onde começa e onde acaba, mas tudo bem, pois você pode fazer na ordem que você quiser, só tem um detalhe, esses puzzles não são fáceis. A telas de puzzles seguem o mesmo padrão: um caminho que você deve percorrer com o cursor do mouse, o problema é que existem regras diferentes para cada área do jogo, o que torna tudo mais complexo e complicado, fazendo você perder horas em apenas um puzzle. O jogo não possui história, seu único objetivo é resolver esses desafios sem saber o que te espera. O jogo faz você ficar bravo com você mesmo por ser tão ignorante, eu mesmo fiquei puto e fechei o jogo várias vezes porque não consegui resolver nada, mas uma hora ou outra dá vontade de voltar e tentar de novo, e valeu a pena, sempre procuro por jogos difíceis pois são os melhores, mas esse me surpreendeu no quesito dificuldade, não vou spoilar o final, mas sim, é incrível! Recomendo!! 10/10

This game is amazing, but not for everyone. As has been noted, it is a fiendishly difficult puzzler. It has garnered many negative reviews, mostly from people expecting it to be a puzzle-adventure game, which it is NOT. It has suffered in it's comparisons to Myst, but it really isn't like that at all.

EVERY SINGLE PUZZLE consists of drawing line-path through a grid or symbol. Every one. Nothing else. Every interaction with the world is triggered by drawing a line-path through a grid or symbol. You cannot interact with the world in any other way. The environment itself often plays a key role in the puzzles, whether it be clues to the puzzle lurking in the environment, or driving the solution of the puzzle itself.

Yet... and here is why the game is great and totally worth the $40 price of admission... something subtle starts to happen to you as you complete puzzle after puzzle. HOW you solve the puzzles -- the thought process required arrive at a solution for each -- starts to take on meaning and become metaphoric. There is a palpable sense of MEANING in the puzzles you solve, and that is reflected and reinforced by ALL the environment details and art and media snippets found on the island. The game begins to speak to you in a language you have learned by playing the game. And the sum total of THAT experience is profound. It's not like anything I've ever experienced in a game.

Except perhaps Dear Esther. In Dear Esther you did nothing but walk around, look at stuff, and listen to an intermitent narrative as meaning started to emerge. In Dear Esther, you were an observer. That game TOLD you a story. In The Witness you walk around, solve puzzles, look at stuff, and begin to understand WHY you're solving puzzles and what it all means. This game SHOWS you a story. It adheres to the old writing adage, SHOW not TELL.

When it all comes together -- and HOW it all comes together -- is both intangible and epic.

If you're the kind of person whom what I've tried to describe makes sense or is appealing, you'll love this game. Otherwise, you'll hate it as many reviewers here apparently have hated it. There's very little in between.

In The Witness siamo su di un'isola.
Ma a parte delle curiose statue, non sembra esserci alcun segno di vita a parte noi.
Però ci sono delle strutture, degli evidenti segni della presenza di qualcuno. Uno strano simbolo ricorrente su sedie, tavoli e schermi, che ricorda quello della Dharma di Lost.
E soprattutto, ci sono enigmi.
Tanti, tantissimi enigmi che attivano cavi, schermi, altri marchingegni. Ma perché sono lì? Chi ce li ha messi? E noi, cosa ci facciamo qui?

Dire che lo scopo di The Witness è semplicemente quello di risolvere enigmi sarebbe riduttivo, anche se è quello che si fa la maggior parte del tempo.
Ma mancando un qualsivoglia tipo di tutorial, la risoluzione di questi enigmi (più di 500, ma non tutti obbligatori) dipende esclusivamente da noi. Essendo un mondo aperto, possiamo infatti fin da subito andare dove ci pare, a esplorare e prendere confidenza ♥♥♥ l'isola.
Se però la base degli enigmi è comprensibile fin da subito (partire da un punto e arrivare a un altro, all'interno di una griglia) e costante per tutto il gioco, ci accorgiamo ben presto che quanto appreso non è minimamente sufficiente ad aprire alcune porte che ci si parano davanti appena messo piede fuori dall'area iniziale. Strani simboli, colori, fiori, tetramini, ce n'è per tutti i gusti, e nessuna idea di cosa farne.

Allora che si fa?
Si esplora. Si va in giro. Si cerca una zona che contenga un esempio facilmente interpretabile di quello specifico enigma, e un po' a tentativi e un po' a intuito si riesce ben presto a capire le regole che ogni simbolo porta ♥♥♥ sé, e che è necessario apprendere. Non tutti sono ugualmente riusciti, va detto, e alcune meccaniche sono un più frustranti di altre da assimilare e da applicare, ma i puzzle veramente ostici (e risolvibili quasi solo tramite guida) si contano forse sulle dita di una mano.
Comunque, pian piano, il nostro bagaglio di conoscenze si espande, riusciamo a risolvere puzzle più complessi e a completare le diverse aree in cui l'isola è suddivisa, attivando i rispettivi laser che puntano verso la cima della montagna. Ma cosa c'è lassù? E qual è il vero segreto dietro all'isola?

Il gioco è abbastanza parco di informazioni, e non vi è una vera e propria "trama" come può essere quella di The Talos Principle, però sono presenti svariati log audio contenenti citazioni sulla religione, sulla scienza e su altre questioni filosofiche, nonché alcuni filmati sullo stesso tema, estratti da conferenze, interviste o altro. Alcuni più interessanti di altri (e alcuni più lunghi di altri!) sono però utili per capire l'idea che c'è dietro allo sviluppo del titolo.

Allo stesso modo, altro elemento fondamentale per capire la filosofia di The Witness sono anche i numerosi enigmi ambientali che si trovano qua e là. Apparentemente invisibili, sono in realtà diabolicamente nascosti per tutta l'isola in azzardati giochi prospettici, tramite accurati posizionamenti, sui sentieri, i riflessi nell'acqua, in cielo, in terra, tanto che ben presto si inizia a vedere quel dannato pattern (un tondo ♥♥♥ la linea) praticamente ovunque. Lo scenario stesso, e la sua interazione ♥♥♥ lo schermo tramite luci, ombre o quant'altro, è inoltre spesso fondamentale per la risoluzione di alcuni enigmi apparentemente impossibili.

Graficamente invece, come si vede già dagli screen, sfoggia colori intensi e luminosi, ma pur ♥♥♥ una certa semplicità nelle texture è davvero bello da vedere, ♥♥♥ tanti giochi di luce ed effetti particolari.
Qualche dubbio invece sul comparto audio, che è inesistente per il 90% del gioco, ♥♥♥ solo il rumore dei nostri passi ad accompagnare le nostre scorribande e qualche sporadico effetto sonoro. Non mi sarebbe dispiaciuta una seppur minima colonna sonora ambientale, magari a caratterizzare le diverse zone, mentre nell'affrontare gli enigmi sonori (ci sono anche quelli) sarebbe bastato semplicemente farla scemare. Buono invece il doppiaggio dei vari log, ♥♥♥ le diverse voci ben caratterizzate, e ottima anche la traduzione italiana, non sempre facile.

Sulla longevità, direi che si assesta su qualche decina di ore (sulle 20-30) se si esplora l'isola ♥♥♥ il proprio ritmo e si cerca di risolvere tutti gli enigmi per conto proprio senza consultare una guida - per non parlare di quelli ambientali, alcuni dei quali sono scovabili solo tramite assunzione di acidi, gli stessi degli sviluppatori.
Il generale senso di progressione poteva però essere reso un po' meglio, ♥♥♥ almeno un segno più chiaro che quanto stiamo facendo ha delle evidenti ripercussioni, invece rimane sempre un po' anticlimatico e vago fino alla fine.

Oltre a un finale "normale", infatti, ce n'è anche uno molto più complesso da raggiungere, nonché diversi segreti e "dietro le quinte" più o meno nascosti che riescono a dare una visione d'insieme un po' più chiara e, se non proprio a svelarci il Segreto di Monkey Isl… ehm, dell'isola di The Witness, perlomeno a farci intuire diverse cose riguardo la sua esistenza, le strutture e gli audio log in cui ci siamo imbattuti.

Perché, in ultima istanza, lo scopo di The Witness non è solo quello di risolvere una mezza infinità di puzzle, di farci spremere le meningi per intuirne le regole, di attivare dei laser, di guardare il cielo alla ricerca di enigmi ambientali o di farci riflettere su questioni filosofiche sulla natura di Dio, sul ruolo della scienza e sulle nostre percezioni - lo scopo (coraggioso e forse ambizioso) di The Witness è quello di provare a farci guardare il mondo ♥♥♥ occhi diversi.
E se dopo averci giocato, averne assimilato la filosofia, averne scoperto tutti i segreti, guarderemo ciò che ci circonda in maniera minimamente diversa da prima - anche solo alla ricerca di quel famigerato pattern! - allora potrà dire di aver raggiunto il suo scopo.

Note Globale : 17/20

Graphismes :
☑ Excellents
☐ Très bons
☐ Bons
☐ Acceptables
☐ Moyens
☐ Moches

Le jeu mise beaucoup sur ses graphismes pour apaiser le joueur lors de ses résolutions de puzzles. Tout est très beau et colle, je me suis parfois surpris à admirer le paysage sur ma route vers une énigme (chôse que je ne fais pas souvent sur de tels jeux). Le seul petit bémol serait la mousse des vagues qui me paraissait bizarre par rapport au reste, mais ce n'est qu'un petit détail par rapport à l'ensemble des décors.

Jouabilité :
☐ Jouable sans peine
☑ Jouable avec un peu de peine
☐ Pas totalement injouable
☐ Injouable

J'y ai joué au clavier et à la souris. Dès le lancement du jeu, on est confronté à un problème: il est impossible de paramétrer les touches ZQSD pour marcher. Le jeu est en effet jouable uniquement en QWERTY ou avec les flèches directionnelles. Il vous faudra donc utiliser la manipulation SHIFT+ALT pour mettre votre clavier en QWERTY. Il est aussi impossible de sauter et on est souvent bloqué par des murs invisibles lorsqu'on veut tomber d'un rocher pour aller plus rapidement par exemple. Ces deux restrictions cassent un peu l'immersion dans l'univers de The Witness.

Durée de vie :
☐ Infinie
☑ Excellente
☐ Très bonne
☐ Bonne
☐ Acceptable
☐ Ça sent un peu le foutage de gueule, on reste sur sa faim

J'ai terminé l'histoire principale en 30h en m'arrêtant de temps en temps pour admirer le paysage et en terminant presque toutes les énigmes. C'est une très bonne durée de vie sachant que les énigmes que je n'ai pas résolues doivent ajouter quelques heures au total.

Bande son (bruitages et musiques) :
☑ Très bonne
☐ Bonne
☐ Moyenne
☐ Mauvaise
☐ Très mauvaise

Je ne me rappelle pas avoir entendu de musique apaisante de toute ma partie. Peut-être y en a-t-il eu une de temps en temps mais il ne me semble pas que ce soit le cas, j'aurais aimé entendre de temps en temps une mélodie à un volume faible au lieu des bruitages de la nature. J'imagine cependant que ce manque de musiques a été volontairement mis en place par les développeurs afin que le joueur se sente seul sur l'île. Les bruitages sont par contre très bons et mettent bien dans l'ambiance. Je ne savais pas où le mettre mais il est impossible de changer le son en jeu, il faut le faire par le mélangeur de volume.

Scénario :
☐ Du jamais vu, bravo l'artiste !
☑ Assez bien ficelé
☐ Acceptable mais sans plus
☐ Mauvais

☐ Non-existant

C'est là que j'ai un problème. Le scénario me semblait au départ non-existant mais je me suis par la suite rendu compte que ce n'était pas vraiment le cas. Sur votre route vous tomberez sur beaucoups d'enregistrements audio et quelques un en vidéo contenant principalement des citations. Vous verrezaussi des gens de pierre, figés à jamais dans leur dernière position, semblant à la fois mobiles et immobiles. Tous ces gens de pierre ne sont pas là par hasard, ils ont une histoire et le jeu semble vouloir nous faire comprendre leur passé. Sauf que, j'ai beau avoir fini le jeu, je ne comprends toujours pas complètement ce qu'ils représentent. J'ai bien quelques idées par ci par là mais ça s'arrête là. Je suis probablement passé à coté de quelque chose.

Rapport qualité/prix :
☐ Le jeu pourrait coûter plus cher
☐ Très bon prix
☑ Bon prix
☐ Satisfaisant
☐ Il vaut mieux attendre une promotion
☐ Inacceptable

J'ai eu du mal à dépenser ces 36,99€ dans un seul et unique jeu (moi qui achète beaucoup de petits jeux) mais je suis au final content de mon achat.

Points positifs :
● Ambiance paisible
● Décors magnifiques
● Enigmes à difficultés variables
● Fin très originale

Points négatif :
● Très peu de liberté de configuration du jeu (touches, son)
● Liberté de mouvement réduite (murs invisibles, sauts)
● (Pas de cartes à échanger Steam)


( ) = Seulement pour les personnes qui seraient intéressées par ça

本作名字叫做见证者，但是对于一款没有任何剧情的游戏来说，见证了什么，才是最重要的。然而本作的游戏中，完全没有任何哪怕一点点的对于见证这个词的解释，反倒是从各个人物雕像，残垣断壁之中，玩家可以隐约的猜测到一点点东西。抓不住，却可以感觉到，仿佛是作者在向我们诉说着什么，这种感觉真的十分微妙。所以问题也就出现了，见证，究竟是见证了什么，是经历，是思想，还是那种只可意会，无法言传的东西？作者给出了问题，我们却抓不到答案。

虽然游戏是一款以解密为主，甚至可以说只有解密的游戏，其背景本不会存在艺术价值，至少不会太多。就像是一些手游中那些妖艳的女孩一样，本作的背景也是同样性质的出现。然而前者是给人一种冲动，后者却给了我们平静，就像是前面所说，给了提示，却没有答案。游戏的谜题固然困难，而更困难的则是发现谜题，没有任何一款游戏像本作一样，表面给出一些谜题，背景却藏着更多谜题。把谜题与背景制作的浑然一体，背景即是谜题。那么，背景还是背景吗，谜题还是谜题吗，平静的外表是否还是平静的，前一刻提出的问题，后一刻是否能寻找到解答？艺术无止境，而本作则是以独特的方式告诉了我们什么是艺术，却也以独特的方式向我们提问，什么是艺术。

解密游戏的谜题总是会出现各式各样的玩法，而本作中的谜题，却是只有一种玩法。就像是数独一样，就那么九个数字，却可以玩出成千上万种的谜题。在本作中，玩家所要做的事就是非常简单的一件事，那就是画线，你却不会想到，仅仅是画线这一种游戏方式，可以玩出这么多种的形式。表现方式有直达终点的，有吞豆豆的，有隔离不同色块的，也有镜像走迷宫的，还有利用环境欺骗视觉的等等等等。简单的游戏方式，不简单的谜题。游戏据说共有667个谜题，也有说是664个谜题，但游戏的成就却仅有2个，一个是完成游戏，一个是完成挑战。少有的注重内在，而不注重表象的游戏方式，毕竟现在很多游戏，恨不得你解开一个谜题，就会给你一个成就。在这里，只有你完成了的标志，你找到了彩蛋的标志。

本作虽然在游戏性方面有着超高的可玩性，非常富有艺术性的背景，隐晦的剧情。但是本作却不宜长时间游玩，主要原因也是本作的3D晕眩非常严重。如果有3D晕眩的小伙伴还是不要入手了，真的会非常晕。举个栗子，我可以持续游玩一天的第一人称老滚5，可以持续3小时以上游玩多数FPS，但是在本作中，持续1小时游玩，就已经开始胃液上涌。本作的画面并不真实，却能给人非常严重的晕眩感，甚至在这个方面，本作都把传统意义上的3D晕眩诱因都给打翻了。

总结：喜欢解密的玩家能看到这里，基本就直接入手了吧，如果还没有入手，那么可以等待一个折扣再入手，或者包包富裕原价入手，都是非常值得的。虽然有着很高的艺术性，但不管你能否欣赏的来，都可以游玩本作，只要你喜欢解密，那么就没有什么所谓的门槛。打开游戏，剩下的就交给你的大脑与眼睛，还有你的想象力。

To start with, a word of caution -

If you do not enjoy trying to understand puzzles, you will not enjoy this game.

Note I say "understand" instead of "solve", because the distinction is important.

Solving a puzzle is rewarding to anyone. It's easy enough to appreciate getting the solution after struggling with a puzzle for a while. Games like Portal make great use of this. Portal is about finding the solution that will let you move on.

The Witness is different. The Witness is a game about understanding puzzles. Understanding a puzzle is about more than just finding a solution. It's about knowing how the puzzle works. It's about knowing what makes a solution a solution.

You could be shown the answer to many of the puzzles in the game and be immediately and totally stuck on the next puzzle. Why? Because you didn't understand the puzzle. You don't understand why that solution is a solution. Without that knowledge, you cannot move on to the next puzzle. You may even have to go back to a "solved" puzzle in order to try and understand it better.

Understanding requires questioning. Understanding requires probing. Understanding requires observing. You will be questioning, probing and observing every panel in the game, and indeed, the island itself, all in an attempt to understand.

If you do not enjoy trying to understand puzzles, you will not enjoy this game.


If, however, you have a love for discovery and understanding, this game will entertain that love in a beautiful and fulfilling way.

A great game if you love to rapidly alternate between feeling like the cleverest and most stupid person in the world.

Эта игра показала мне, насколько я тупой.

通關，隱藏成就未達成。

+優美
+謎題有趣

-迷路
-沒提示

很值得玩，但是要對解謎有興趣的。
都是從起點到終點一筆連線的謎題，但是很多樣化，有從單純圖形意義的規則，有搭配環境視角/光影/聲音的謎題。
各類型謎題沒提示，但是有類似教學關卡，由簡單到困難，你要自己理解謎題是什麼意思。只是各關卡，散佈在整個島嶼上。
整個島嶼都是開放世界，也沒有指示路線，如果你直接走到綜合題的關卡，你會完全不懂謎題規則。

謎題規則有些什麼，我就不說了。我就說一個雷點，我花很多時間在找一個關卡怎麼去，我看了地圖，也走不到。 原來船可以搭阿，崩潰。

ひたすら一筆書きとその応用発展問題を解き、パズルだらけの島を探索するFPSな探索パズルゲー。

普通のパズルゲーを四則演算で例えると「『＋』の記号は前後の数値を加算する」と説明があってから「4＋2」という問題がでる。

このゲームではいきなり「4◆2」という問題がでる。デタラメに入力してみて、2で正解だったので引き算だろうと見当をつける。ところが「6◆2」に4を入力したら不正解、実は割り算だった。と、ルールを探るところからはじめる。

この段階では誤答にペナルティがなく、言わば「パズル形式で提示されたルール説明」なのだが、ゲームを始めてすぐはそれが説明パズルなのか本番パズルなのか区別がつかず、不親切だし知能テストのように感じてしまうのもやむなしとは思う。

その後にそのルールを使った本番のパズルが待ち受けているので、改めて存分に苦しんで欲しい。やってる最中はそんなルール解るかボケって思ってたけど、クリアしちゃえば大体赦せる。

I wish there were a "mixed" option for recommending this game, as I think for a lot of people out there, this is a fantastic game, and it's definitely well made with a lot of love and attention to detail in many respects. I really like puzzles and problem solving, so part of my disappointment with The Witness is that I really thought I would enjoy the game. Myst was one of my favorite games growing up, and I was extremely excited to see a well-reviewed game in the Myst genre surface after far too long.

The problem for me was that The Witness is very much a game about the journey, and not the destination. It turns its head on the genre as it's less a game about solving puzzles within a set of rules, and more about discovering what those rules are. And for the most part, it does that well. Instead of the usual game conventions, rewards for solving hard puzzles weren't any kind of story unlock, more just to give you a harder puzzle. That approach was fun for awhile, but some story unlock would've been appreciated, especially because there is so much mystery and it's such an immersive world that was clearly built for a reason and has a fascinating backstory.

Some of the mechanics also just seem arbitrary, or at the very least, not quite obvious enough. Sometimes perspective puzzles require you to either take a screenshot or jot down on pencil and paper the answer, then transfer it on screen. That seems like lazy game design and worst of all, takes you out of the immersive experience. It's possible I'm mostly tone deaf, as some of the sound puzzles seemed almost impossible to me, despite numerous listens. There's also just the repetitiveness of the "pathfinding" puzzles, which range from challenging (and satisfying) to punitive in their difficulty spikes. It's in these difficulty spikes where I think the core game mechanic of pathfinding lets you down, as it requires you to be much more of a planner than a "hands on" problem solver. In a game like this, I would think it would accommodate multiple approaches, but really there's a right way to approach this game, and a wrong way. Unfortunately for me, I think the way I approach puzzles (trial and error) is strongly discouraged, at times in punitive ways.

The philosophy from the audio/video portions will likely be appreciated by some, and for some come off as the worst kind of douchey-hipster nonsense. Had they been delivered in shorter pieces, I might've fallen into the former. But as rambling as some of them are, I found them more annoying than enjoyable unfortunately.

I don't know, I'm really torn on this. It's a well made game, and while it seems so open and non-confined, I found the game to be far too linear in mechanics and how to approach problem solving. At times it actually made me feel like a lesser thinker because I have a different approach to puzzles than what the game designer prefers. What I'm sure is a really fun journey for some, left me disappointed with the destination.

Am realizing this reads a lot like an apology for not liking this game, which I think it is. I really, really wanted to love The Witness, but in the end, not only was this game not for me, but I genuinely feel lesser for that fact because I feel like I should have loved it, and just didn't.

Graphismes en "Low-Poly style" de toute beauté, environnements par biomes très variés, quelques passages "secrets" bien cachés, et des énigmes, beaucoup d'énigmes. Un jeu qui prend le joueur comme il est, c'est-à-dire quelqu'un d'intelligent qui sera tout à fait capable de résonner par logique et déduction. Jonathan Blow disait dans une interview qu'il faut, qu'en tant que développeur, respecter le joueur et ses capacités. Il le démontre une fois de plus (Braid avait aussi cette ambition) avec bien plus qu'un jeu, une invitation au dépaysement, un "rêve" (dans tous les sens du terme), et un jeu construit de façon intelligente, sans prendre le joueur par la main, mais celui qui joue au jeux vidéo depuis les années 90 ne sera pas gêné par cela, tout comme le jeune joueur je pense, car ce jeu est construit de façon à ce que son déroulement se fasse naturellement. Il n'y a rien qui choque dans le changement d'environnements, dans la résolution d'énigmes... Tout est fluide et connecté. 6 années de développement pour un jeu dit "indépendant", c'est énorme, et on le ressent parfaitement quand on joue à ce jeu. Je vous invite grandement à profiter du lore du jeu en allant sur le blog officiel du jeu pour découvrir les travaux de Luis, Deanna VanBuren, ainsi que ceux effectués dans le cadre du partenariat avec les studios "Fourm Design" qui ont donné forme à ce que voulait Mr Blow en matière de level-design.

On y découvre d'ailleurs pas mal de choses que, je suis sûr, très peu de joueurs ont en réalité trouvé par eux-mêmes en jouant à The Witness ; et cette lecture vu du côté de ceux qui ont créé le jeu est encore plus incroyable quand on la découvre. Pour prendre quelques exemples, il y a :

- la femme faisant une prière avec le reflet de l'eau visible dans la mangrove
- la sirène construite dans la roche vers la côte Ouest, près de l'usine désaffectée avec les vases de différentes couleurs
- le rocher qui ressemble à une tortue à côté de la chute d'eau centrale
- les trois représentations de l'homme dans le monastère : l'homme normal, l'homme qui joue de la flute, l'homme qui joue de la flute avec des ailes d'ange

et tellement d'autres illusions d'optique à découvrir par soi-même...

Bref, un jeu travaillé avec trois niveaux de lecture potentiels :
- une première lecture en faisant le jeu et en essayant de résoudre les énigmes
- une deuxième lecture philosophique en écoutant les cassettes audio tout en jouant au jeu
- une dernière lecture en application avec les deux précédentes en se rendant compte que cette île est gavée d'illusions d'optique et que c'est un réel plaisir d'essayer de toutes les découvrir et qu'effectivement, on veut jouer avec nos sens et nos bien-fondés du début à la fin du jeu.

Mr Jonathan Blow est un de ces développeurs que l'on respecte pour ses travaux, sa pensée, sa mentalité en tant que joueur/développeur. Il a une façon bien à lui de considérer le jeu, les interactions possibles, ce que l'on transmet par la construction de puzzle dans un jeu et le distinguo entre ce qui fait d'une énigme une "bonne" énigme d'une énigme ratée. Mais je vous laisse découvrir tout ça par vous-mêmes en allant écouter ses interviews, en regardant ses conférences sur ces thèmes-là, et en allant aussi jeter un coup d'oeil à sa chaîne Youtube assez prolifique, surtout si vous êtes bons en langage Javascript/C# et que vous voulez des tips et découvrir une façon très personnelle d'écrire du code, de le gérer, de s'en inspirer.

Je vous laisse, je dois retourner contempler les paysages de cette île merveilleuse et m'inspirer de cette patte graphique si... voluptueuse.

The Witness is about aha moments.

Did you play Braid? Remember how you felt when you solved that one puzzle after staring at it for an hour? The Witness wants you to feel that a hundred times.

I lost count of the number of times I decided a puzzle was impossible. First I learned when I should come back to it later. Then I learned to pay attention. Then I learned to patiently sit and think. Slowly, I beat the game without spoilers.

So should you. Beating the game doesn't matter. What matters is the moment you finally solve that puzzle you're stuck on and feel like the smartest person who ever lived. But you have to hunger for that moment, because if you don't, bad news: the only reward is more puzzles. They only get harder. That's also the good news: another aha moment is coming.

My biggest complaint was the lack of guidance in the early game. I was uncomfortable with not knowing whether I should be able to solve a puzzle or not. I've never done well at Myst-style games so some aspects didn't come naturally to me. A lot of early hours were frustrating as I wandered aimlessly, making zero progress.

It was worth it.

首发从凌晨2点肝到晚上8点，总游戏时长15个小时，只解出了310个谜题，卡关严重。

对只玩了几十分钟就给差评的人相当无语。其实witness不光有一笔画，虽然是以一笔画为主，但除了第一个大型谜题外，后面都是多种解谜形式混合出现的套路。利用光线解谜都只是小儿科，连树叶、岩石、毫不起眼的树枝、玩家自己脚步声的变化等等，都成了解开谜题必不可少的要素。而且这些要素虽是解开谜题的关键，但游戏本身却没有给出任何明显提示(顺便说一句，游戏从始至终都是没有任何教程的，整张地图也可以随便瞎逛，游戏过程全靠玩家自己摸索)，只有一些很不起眼的暗示，粗心的玩家很容易将其忽略。但正是如此，玩家解开谜题获得的满足感也更加巨大。

抛开其他解谜要素不谈，游戏本身的一笔画也是做得相当不错，堪称史上最强的一笔画游戏，说一笔画真有点委屈了它。作者在一笔画的基础上还增加了若干的几何图形，不同形状、甚至不同颜色的图形都对应着不同的解法，到了后面还会出现多种图案混合到一个谜题里的情况，实在是让人欲仙欲死。不得不说我一年的脑细胞都死在这上面了。但这个过程中除了解不开谜题产生的焦虑外，我丝毫没有感觉到乏味的情绪（当然如果你一直解不开谜题，那肯定是很难受的，我的感受并不能代表其他人）。

游戏的剧情目前肯定是没有人能够完全挖掘的，但就我自己从游戏中发掘的只言片语中，游戏的内涵恐怕比braid只高不低。这个时间静止的小岛本身就充满了谜团，但除此之外，作者还在游戏里的录音带、视频中阐述了大量的哲学思想，虽然不知和游戏本身的剧情有怎样的联系，但能够如此煞费苦心地将大量剧情隐藏在各个角落，再加上有Braid的例子在前，想必游戏的剧情也不会让人失望的。

游戏本身的素质不用怀疑，但对不常接触解谜的玩家来说，难度还是挺大的，是否入手请自行斟酌。但如果你本来就喜欢解谜游戏的话，那么不要犹豫，witness绝对是一次超值的享受。
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剧透警告
1月29日对这个游戏又有了新认识，原来隐藏在普通谜题下的还有更深一层的谜题。天上的白云、地上的石头、建筑物、河流乃至整个岛屿原来都是一笔画组成！世界万物皆可一笔画！通关竟然只把游戏完成了一半，作者你为何这么吊！

The Witness’ı 41 saat deneyim etme şansım oldu. The Witness kesinlikle bulmaca türünde en iyi ve en zor oyunlardan biri olmuş bunu rahatlıkla söyleyebilirim. Oyun güzel bir atmosfere sahip ve bunu sunulan dünyanın rengarenk olması, bu renkler arasındaki geçişin de göz zevkinize hitap etmesiyle sağlıyor. Oyunda 13 farklı bölge bulunmakta ve hepsi de gerçekten harika bir şekilde tasarlanmış, her bölge kendi içerisinde farklı bir dünya sanki. Oyun görsel anlamda gerçekten çok hoş bir yapıya sahip.

The Witness’ın en önemli kısmı olan bulmacalar ise gerçekten zorlayıcı. Bu yüzden bulmaca çözmeyi seven ve bulmaca çözme konusunda sabırlı olan kişiler The Witness’ı satın almalı, aksi taktirde oyun bir yerden sonra sıkıcı olmaya başlıyor ve oyunu bırakıyorsunuz. The Witness’ın içerisinde 600’den fazla bulmaca bulunmakta ve hepsinin farklı bir çözümü var. Bulmacaların yapıları aynı olsa da kesinlikle her bulmaca farklı bir şekilde çözülüyor. Bazen bir kuşun sesinin tonlarını dinleyerek bazen ağaçtan bulmacanın üzerine düşen bir gölgenin bulmaca üzerinde çizdiği yolu izleyerek bazen bulmacaya uzaktan veya farklı bir açı ile bakarak bazen ise bu 3 yolun hepsini bir arada kullanarak çözüme ulaşıyorsunuz. The Witness’daki bulmacaların bir diğer zorlayıcı yanı ise oyun size “Bu bulmacayı geçtim ve artık rahatım. ”demenize izin vermiyor çünkü oyundaki bir bulmacayı çözdüğünüzde sonraki bulmaca genellikle bir öncekinden daha zor oluyor. Oyunun zor olması bazı yerlerde sinirlerinizi bozup canınızı sıksa da bence oyunun zor olması yadırganmamalı sonuçta 2009’da duyurulan bir oyun ve 7 yıl sonra çıkmış, kolay olması pek olası değildi.

The Witness bulmaca türündeki diğer oyunlarda olduğu gibi bir hikaye sunumuna sahip değil, The Witness da yanlış hatırlamıyorsam 30 tane ses kaydı ve 5 tane video var. Bu videolarda ve ses kayıtlarında size çeşitli deneyler hakkında bilgiler veriliyor, tarihte yer edinmiş kişilerden önemli alıntılar paylaşılıyor ve bazı olaylar üzerine yorumlar paylaşılıyor oyun size bir hikayeyi vermiyor, sanki sizin hikayeyi keşfetmenizi istiyor, bence oyunun hikayesini oyunun en büyük ve en gizemli bulmacası. Bu gizemli bulmacanın parçalarını toplayıp uygun bir şekilde birleştirmek ise size kalıyor.

The Witness her ne kadar keşif ve bulmaca çözme üzerine ağırlıklı bir oyun olsa da oyunda çözemediğiniz bir gizem mevcut bu da oyunu farklı kılıyor. Oyun gerçekten zor ama bir o kadar da güzel ve ilginç. Sabrınız var ise, bulmaca çözmeyi seven bir kişiyseniz, The Witness kesinlikle size beklediğinizden fazlasını verebilecek bir oyun.

我在人前夸说我认得你
在我的作品中，他们看到了你的画像
他们走来问：“她是谁？”
我不知道怎么回答
我说：“真的，我说不出来。”
他们斥责我，轻蔑地走开了
你却坐在那里微笑
我把你的事迹编成不朽的诗歌，秘密从我心中涌出
他们走来问我：“把所有的意思都告诉我们罢。”
我不知道怎样回答
我说：“呵，谁知道那是什么意思！”
他们哂笑了，鄙夷之极地走开
你却坐在那里微笑

——泰戈尔《吉檀迦利》

《The Witness》的根本主题，是从“我”出发，探讨人与世界的联系，这一命题不仅包含人类对宇宙的认知与体验，也关涉自然加诸于人的影响。本作作者Jonathan Blow曾经说过：“我希望透过这个游戏（指《Braid》——笔者注），与其他人建立某种形式的连接。”作为Jonathan Blow表达自我思考的又一媒介，《The Witness》建立这种连接的核心，在于通过电子游戏的机制，解构与重现人类体认世界与自我的种种。

亚瑟•艾丁顿将我们的知识分为象征性和密切性两类，象征性的认识组成我们名之为科学的产物，它建立在逻辑思维之上，可以被明确测量和描述。在本作中，人类探求科学法则的过程被寓于主线解谜之中。本作的谜题本质上都是一笔画式的，所有迷宫题板被安排在场景的显眼位置，由此避免了许多同类作品中，玩家进入新场景试图依靠依次点击寻找可互动物品的冗余过程。在《The witness》中，一切谜题挑战都必须是明确的，“它就在那里”，为了配合这种体验，游戏的画面显得干净而清晰——高饱和度和低多边形的场景设计风格带来的不仅仅是感官上的审美体验，它明媚的外表下暗藏冷隽的气质，同时力图为玩家去除多余的视觉元素的干扰。但问题在于，几乎没有人会愿意买这样一款游戏：在一个风景秀丽的小岛上，把所有的时光耗费在纯图形谜题上。所幸，在本作中，作者成功赋予了“画线”这一行为以一而穷无限的奇妙。光影、色彩、声音，世间万象都可以被纳为谜题的一部分，再通过多种形式的组合，简单的“一笔画”因之生发出万千变化。无论是弃船中双线对称、声音、色彩等元素组成的多重谜题，还是最终关卡将题板画线与搭建现实“桥梁”相联系的谜题，都不仅展现出作者精深的思维，更使我们惊艳于他丰富的想象力与创造力。在谜题之外，作者在小岛各处安排了可供收集的录音和视频，以为传达其思想的辅助，兼提供某些剧情上的暗示。录音大多收录有关认识世界与自我的一段话，而它们的背后，则是人类文明史上一个个熠熠生辉的名字：永嘉大师、B•F•斯金纳、爱因斯坦……有趣的是，这些录音与场景谜题常常存在千丝万缕的联系，譬如，在可以眺望弃船的海岸边，收录了讲述沉船的一则宗教寓言；而在以色彩为解谜主题的温室里，则是一段关于色彩的论述；神庙中那段有关认知的薄纱之喻，更与透过镂空窗的空隙看到谜底的形式在理念上相契合……收集元素并没有给游戏整体带来割裂感，对作者来说，他们与连线谜题一样，都是其与玩家建立交流不可或缺的一部分。

然而，真正困难的是，如何让这一切被玩家所学习和理解，从而完成某种与科学探索相类的过程？Jonathan Blow认为，所有游戏都在试图“教”给玩家一些东西。对本作来说，我以为用“传递”来表述更为妥帖。在这一层面上，本作实现得更为彻底，它需要围绕“画线”这一行为，从基础开始，建立起一个只属于这个世界的全新规则体系。大多数解谜游戏的设计都是建立在玩家的固有知识上的，例如，当你遇到一扇锁着的门，你就明白要先找到钥匙。但《The Witness》不一样，有关这个世界的一切几乎都是未知的，除了视频和录音，游戏里没有任何文字，也没有背景音乐，玩家不能再以既有经验行事，取而代之的，是对游戏世界更为深入的观察与思考。有的时候，看透谜题本身比解开谜底更为困难。从观察与尝试开始，这个世界的法则被逐渐传递给玩家——科学探索的历程在游戏中被高度概括为观察、尝试、归纳、检验、拓展五个阶段，玩家在完全开放的地图中游历，实现这一过程的不断反复与提升乃至综合。这样的设计极易给人造成游戏缺乏引导的错觉，但事实上，如同本作干净明晰的美术风格与极简化的谜题设计一样，游戏已经给了玩家足够的信息，减一分不可，增一分难得。

当然，迷宫连线并不是这款游戏的全部。就我而言，当我第一次站在山顶，看到溪流呈现出与石柱图案相类似的线条，当我尝试着去点击它，并完成了一次连线，那种惊奇感绝不亚于解开谜题的欣喜。这样的环境连线题，在游戏中多达惊人的135道，它们藉光影、视觉错位甚至是动态变化藏在小岛的各个角落，成为超越时间与空间的存在，有些藏得不可谓不深，不可谓不妙。将如此多的环境连线题塞进一座小岛，却尤能维持地图布局与建筑结构的协调一体，实在穷尽了人工之美的复杂与精致。这种连线本身不存在任何逻辑层面的难度，它与思维无关，与心智相通，强调的是瞬间的震撼与不可言说的体悟，具备某种程度上的宗教仪式感——我们通过这种形式在刹那间感知神圣的存在，与伟大的造物产生心灵上的联结。

如果你完成了游戏中最困难的留声机限时随机谜题，将可以获得一段长达一个多小时的视频。这是来自游戏设计师Brian Moriarty的一段演讲，画面是一次日食的全过程，背景音乐则是巴赫的《赋格的艺术》——被视为其满怀宗教感情，以探究音符组合的可能性追寻终极奥秘的伟大创作。这段视频同样暗藏一道环境连线题，需要你在风车地下放映室播放它，然后从视频一端的满日起始，一直连到画面的另一端，接着静静等待。演讲围绕人们喜欢在作品中暗藏信息的传统展开，讲述了有关畅销书《假面舞会》、巴赫、莎士比亚作品真正作者等等的轶事。Moriarty提到，在詹姆斯王版《圣咏集》的第46章，正数第46个词是shake，倒数第46个词是speare，这是属于人类文学史的“最巧合的巧合”，而在纯自然的领域，同样存在这样的巧合：月球是太阳的400分之1，地日距离恰好是地月距离的400倍，当日食发生时，月球又恰好能在那几分钟完全遮蔽太阳。正当你听他讲述周遭的瑰伟神奇，回想起游戏场景中一道道看似巧合的环境连线题，从而产生深深共鸣的时候，只剩一弯牙的太阳运行到了画面的另一端，补齐了线条的末端。于是你拉着线条来到终点并确认，随着轰隆一声，线条化作无数光点飞散而去，在等待了一个多小时之后，你终于得以完成这道游戏中藏得最深，历时最长的环境连线题，与此同时，这段演讲也来到了最后一句话：

“I am the keeper of the Jewel of MASQUERADE, waiting for You or Eternity(我是假面舞会珠宝的守护者，等待着你或者永恒的到来).”

又一个层面的巧合。在这一刻，这句话被赋予了更多含义：它是对玩家长久等待的完美回应，也是宇宙的终极答案对渺小的人类所发出的最深切的呼唤。塞尚说：“我们的艺术必须连同组成自然的各种要素，表现出对自然永恒的战栗感，表现出自然的永恒变化之貌。”人们总是说，游戏是第九艺术，但更多的时候，强调这一论断只是为了给自己的娱乐寻找某种正当理由，电子游戏不需要以这样的方式被赋以艺术的名号。游戏的艺术性到底来自哪里呢？是优秀的美术？动人的音乐？还是恢弘跌宕的剧情带来的刺激，甚至是用一些看起来很深刻的东西，来装点我们短暂的思考时光？也许它们确乎可以被视作广义上的艺术，但我们都明白，这里的“艺术”绝不至如此廉价。这道环境连线题的设计，承载着对永恒自然的发自心底的敬畏，它让我看到，游戏不仅仅是其它艺术的综合，而同样可以具备独立的艺术品格，而Jonathan Blow居然是靠视频，这一理论上反游戏的事物实现了这一点。这些让我想起，在基耶斯洛夫斯基的《红》的结尾，奥古斯特与瓦伦汀的命运在风暴中的渡轮上最终相交，同时出现的，还有《蓝》和《白》中的主要人物，三部曲的一切汇集在这一刻，这也是一场巧合，属于一种叫做电影的艺术形式，来自人为的安排，以命运的名义叙述，满怀对生命的最深沉的悲悯。我想，这就是艺术的共通之处。不同的是，在《The Witness》的这一设计中，玩家是最不可或缺的一环。只有当你亲自聆听了这场演讲，真正在踏破铁鞋的寻觅后，完成了一个多小时的等待，最后确认连线的那一刻才有了意义。如果你只是将这种等待看作作者略带一丝恶意的玩笑，那么很遗憾，你将错过这款游戏最无与伦比的震撼。

迷宫解谜与环境连线所探求的，都是真理的本源，却走向迥异的方向，它们所代表的，正是沃尔夫冈•泡利提出的两种极限概念，一端是客观世界，在时空中寻找固定的进程，另一端是一种思想，以一种神秘的形式解释世界，寻求简化、凝聚。二者的争端由来已久，几乎成为人类社会的永恒话题。在游戏中，录音者、几段视频都对相关问题有所探讨。第一段视频《Yesterday, Tomorrow and You》指出，人类社会的文化产品表达的是对世界的间接看法，在创作与欣赏的过程中经历多重解释，因此，它们更多的是阐释人本身。而科学则是“关于世界的明确真相”，它代表了真理本身。费曼则直接坦言“无法相信那些解释世界的笼统故事”，而只选择单纯地了解世界。而对《The Witness》来说，它们都是游戏体验的一部分，面对这两种主张，作者仍然是那个冷静克制的叙述者，他不仅让我们看到二者的对立，也引导我们思考其间的关联。事实上，无论两种途径在形式上表现出多大的差异，从根源上讲，它们都来自对神秘自然的敬畏与好奇，对于公式、法则的追索与宗教体验存在本质上的相通之处，爱因斯坦所提出的“宇宙宗教感情”所要说明的正是这一点。

但关联绝不止于此。费曼认为现代科学只是具有一定确定性的声明，因而只得呼唤某种“怀疑的自由”；而在第三段视频——塔可夫斯基《乡愁》的最后12分钟里，主人公戈尔恰科夫擎着蜡烛缓缓走过温泉，烛火摇曳，映照着无所依归的灵魂。科学与宗教，在不同的道路上陷入相似的困境。真的存在那个终极的答案吗？每每凝视着深邃的夜空，我们不禁彷徨，在这广阔的宇宙间，我们到底该如何自处？本作所要表达的，并不只是“认识世界”，这一切的最终落脚点，是关于生存的命题，而完成这一过程的，则是对“我”的确证。在游戏有两段录音，把它们放在一起比照很有意思。一段在城堡中，是道格拉斯•霍夫施塔德的话，讲对一个身处偏远之地的人来说，最要紧的是他手上的倒刺；另一段在山顶，是美国宇航员拉塞尔•施威卡特的话，讲当你乘坐飞船远行，当地球成为你可以用拇指随意遮盖的一个小点时，所有的历史、游戏、音乐、战争、诗歌、爱情、生死都变得无足轻重，这一刻，这份体验是属于全人类的。在世界至大和至微的两个极端，强调的都是对自我的关照，而“我”的无限放大，也产生出探寻人与世界联系的第三种途径，亦即向内探求的途径。从本质上来说，它寻求的仍然是心智上的体悟，但往往否定关于世界的一般经验的真实性。游戏中的第五和第六段视频是来自宗教修行者Spira和Gangaji的演讲。在Spira看来，自我是空白开放明亮的，这意味着，它能也仅能接受世界的一切表象内容，因而知识只是对经验的知晓，我们的意识只能了解我们自身。从这一点出发，我们无法感知过去与未来，而只能理解关于它们的经验，因此，不可感的过去与未来是不存在的，时间只是二者间的一种移动，被创造出用以说明经验的连续性，是“心智的狭间对永恒的观感”。而自我的最大价值，正是来自对“现在”的抗拒的缺失，我们所要做的，只是反求诸己，突破天然加于己身的种种框架。就像吠檀多哲学的那个经典比喻，个我居于瓶中，瓶外是无限虚空，梵与个我本质同一，唯有打破瓶子，才能实现个我与最高我的融合。当我们与世界的本质相融，分离感被瓦解，自我的固有特性才得以显现，而在生活中，我们往往称它们为“平静”、“幸福”，这是世界非二元性的体现。而Gangaji则主张“Stop looking for what you want”，当然，这种停止不是消极性的，而是一种纯粹的，坦率的选择，是带着怀疑之心的，对自我的审视，在这个时候，自我就已经超越了目标。相对于费曼多次强调的“在疑惑和不确定中生存”，这类主张显然要走得更远。

游戏结局，玩家登上电梯，环岛飞行一周。电梯的框架，乃至自我的形体逐渐消失，此时此刻，“我”化入了怎样的存在？是黎明星辰，是溪中水泡，是夏日闪电，是幻梦一场，无相无我无常。最终，一切谜题重置，玩家回到起点，游戏关闭，等待又一场“探寻造屋者”的轮回，是解脱还是继续沉沦？

……

“一切有为法，如梦幻泡影，如露亦如电，应作如是观。”


10/10

这游戏太TM有毒了。玩通关之后，满脑子都是连线，现在在街上走的时候看到圆圈都想找线连。。。卧槽

有钱买，没命玩

I definitely recommend The Witness to anyone who loves solving logical puzzles. And there is an enormous amount of them during the gameplay. And when you think you got them all - then you discover another layer of puzzles... ;)

The best part is that there is no tutorial, no explanation. You learn how to solve puzzles (and what certain symbols mean) by solving progressively-harder riddles. You must work out all rules by yourself. And this is actually very rewarding!

And of course there is the bright, colourful island where the game takes place. Very detailed, engaging, and huge.

Beware that there is no adventure and story, though.

This is one of the best games I've ever played. After spending 60+ hours completing all zones and finishing the game, I wholeheartedly believe this game is worth the full $40 pricetag.

The biggest complaint about The Witness is its difficulty. Honestly, the game is difficult. The Witness does not hold your hand - but that's part of what makes it so fun. Every tough puzzle is a potential accomplishment. When I first heard about the game, I was disappointed by its similarity to the Myst series (which I am a huge fan of). I thought, "this game is just a bunch of dumb line puzzles". As I played on, I saw the similarities between the games come together - the game is entirely about lateral thinking and how well you can apply it; NOT some romp from logic puzzle to logic puzzle.

You know a game is good when you get up to head out for lunch and you spend the entire 2 hours thinking about how to solve a difficult puzzle. You REALLY know it's good when you get home and that time spent thinking and that fresh perspective actually get you somewhere.

I still have the obelisks to complete and the challenge puzzle which will probably add another 20-30 hours to getting 100%... but I have been spoiled. There won't be another puzzle/adventure game this good in years.

I'll preface this by admitting that it makes sense for so many of the "helpful" reviews to be negative; it's good to warn customers of a game they won't enjoy, and The Witness definitely isn't for everybody. That said, this is among my favorite games, and I was looking forward to The Witness for a very long time, so the fact that it lived up to my expectations says a lot.

(You may find it helpful to know my preferences, so here are some of my other favorites: Fez, Portal, Infinifactory, LIMBO, The Beginner's Guide, and of course, Braid.)

As other reviewers have pointed out, The Witness isn't "fun"; that's not a criticism, it's just an accurate observation. The Witness is treading unfamiliar territory, but only for a video game: most other artistic mediums have been used to explore themes other than "fun," and it makes sense that this medium can be used similarly.

Insofar as objective criteria exist for judging the quality of a video game, The Witness meets every standard I can think of: the game runs smoothly, the team have been timely about patching bugs, the visuals (gorgeous and stylized) and audio (understated and lacking music) are expertly executed, and the design of the world and puzzles is meticulous (and ambitious).

The only objective drawbacks I can think of are:

1) The absence of an FOV slider (important for those who suffer from motion-sickness), which the developers have hinted may be added in a future update. UPDATE: this has been added, along with some other configuration options.

2) Some of the puzzles are impossible to solve if you're deaf or color-blind.

From what I can tell, The Witness is about making your own observations and forming your own theories about how the game mechanics work (the title of the game is relevant to its content); it's partly about solving puzzles, but more so it's about figuring out what the puzzles even are and how they work in the first place; given that, it's easy to see why The Witness fails to provide players with a clear goal or feedback: that would undermine the core of the game. Patient curiosity is the best mindset with which to approach The Witness; it's like a piece of cloth with a loose thread: you pull it, and it keeps unraveling, and unraveling, and unraveling...

The intrigue of The Witness stems from constant and subtle revelations about how the game functions, which tend to overturn your previous theories and force you to let go of your presumptions, all without ever jumping the shark.

The Witness is slow to get rolling, patiently waiting while you adjust yourself to the mechanics and freely allowing you hold on to your false sense of comprehension. You might expect a game like this to be eager to shove its paradigm-shifting revelations in your face, but it generally isn't: The Witness makes no effort to divulge its secrets, and when you peel back another layer, you can take comfort in the fact that it's a real accomplishment on your part.

The island is dense with puzzles (more so than it appears at first), and each of the nearly 700 puzzles (according to the developers) presents its own unique challenge, and a peek into the mechanics of the game (if you're paying attention). The puzzles are each short, but satisfying and interconnected, so it's easy to leave the game at any time, and they're grouped into areas, where each area explores a particular game mechanic.

Because you're free to wander the island, you can walk away from one area if you get stuck and try a different one. I usually had two or three areas I could choose between at any time. If you try to play through each area, beginning to end, one at a time, I imagine you'll not enjoy yourself very much. Once you get stuck on a puzzle, rather than continue banging your head against it, I recommend venturing off to find a different one; returning to a puzzle with a fresh palette and new mechanics under your belt may shake something loose. The puzzles generally shouldn't require guesswork, and all of them are fair.

There's no narrative in The Witness. You'll find recordings scattered around the island, which contain quotes from people throughout history, generally on the topics of awareness, discovery, investigation, and the monotheistic concept of a god.

Being an atheist, some of these fell flat for me, while others less concerned with theism hit hard, and one even had me teary-eyed. Each one rang with the sort of sincerity that will either move you, or make you very uncomfortable, depending on how it plays against your own life and beliefs.

If I'm to be honest, I think The Witness has affected me on a personal level: its themes of exploration and discovery, and its quiet faith in your capacity to unravel its mysteries are comforting. If you're in the mood for some introspection, you'll probably enjoy it as I have.

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首先，我要强调游戏的主体是第一人称解谜，是解谜！稍微困难点晦涩点的迷题就会使得游戏感觉变得枯燥无聊，这是解谜类游戏基本会有的特点，烧脑子还有卡关都是不可避免的事，所以不要把游戏想得会有多高的娱乐度，如果你对解谜类不是有非常高的兴趣，我不建议你原价购买此游戏。
如果用手柄，请先连接好手柄再启动游戏，基本操作游戏最开始里有，此外，键盘的shift键和手柄LR键可用于加速移动。游戏没有任何文字提示和详细教程，不过游戏的关卡已经能够很好带你融入游戏。
有些人玩了表面就认为游戏就是一笔画、滑动解锁，而没有更深层的游戏性，也不认真想想：真要这样作者为何不干脆低成本做个平面游戏？游戏里至少百分之七十的迷题，离不开场景的利用，你不可能在一个平面里能轻易解答，给个可能不太形象的比喻：这游戏就是一场考试，周围的环境就是一张试卷，而这个一笔画界面只是你要想办法填涂的答题卡既然是填涂答题卡那就有蒙对的可能QAQ。
谜题的难度比起传送门和塔罗斯法则难度要大不少，而且这游戏对于路痴来说难度更大，需要一定的观察力、理解能力、逻辑思维能力和记忆力。
玩这游戏我有三个阶段的感受：

1. 前一个小时，和大多数人一开始感觉那样，感觉只是个一笔画游戏，不过基于作者对该作品至少7年的积累和巨大的投资，我相信后续不会让我失望。
   
2. 接下来九个小时，发现谜题越来越多花样，一笔画不再局限于一个小平面，慢慢延伸至你周围的事物，但是个人当时还是觉得有所欠缺
   
3. 在我谜题解答了300个之后，剩下的基本就开始各种卡关了，但是这时候每成功解答一个谜题所带来成就感和震撼感远超过之前的谜题，这时候，游戏才刚刚开始……（在没解答所有谜题之前通关由于没解出谜底而等于失败，所以没敢主动通关）
   
4. 2016.02.05更新：15小时后：游戏的表谜题基本解决，开始寻找里谜题，the witness后遗症：我现在出去开车就到处找滑动解锁，然后前天不小心磕到别人车了……
   
5. 留坑，说不定以后还会有更多感受

再说说游戏的画面，就跟演示视频那样，偏抽象，不会有多大的3D眩晕（还是会有，只是比起环绕走廊和塔罗斯法则没那么晕人）。让我来对画面评价的话，我感觉画面还挺美的，只是原本我更希望这是款跟时空幻境那样油画画风的游戏。另外游戏的优化偏差，游戏引擎在运动方面感觉有点迟钝不太协调，不过对游戏性的影响不大，因为这游戏在物理方面的重点是光的各种结合运用。
游戏没有背景音乐，因为音效在一些关卡中至关重要，所以不可以静音进行游戏，不然会有些关卡不知所以然。说不定没有音乐可能会给你更好的解谜环境。
总之，对于解谜爱好者来说，这是一款绝对精彩的解谜游戏，希望不要错过。
个人给分：10/10
+++丰富的谜题，新鲜感层出不穷
+++谜题灵活多变
+++数十种独特方式的“滑动解锁”
+++令人惊叹的细节
++画面风景不错
++高自由度解谜游戏
-游戏优化略差
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REVIEW
The witness é uma homenagem a myst feita por jonathan blow responsavel pelo classico jogo indie braid . Entao the witness é o melhor myst ever? Claro que nao seu tolo todos sabem que o melhor myst é myst iv revelation :P , mas the witness esta quase la. É a primeira realizaçao moderna de myst que realmente acrecenta algo, com certeza a melhor implementaçao 3d da ideias. Graficos lindos , sozinho em uma ilha que parece projetada por alguma inteligencia grandiosa , ao mesmo tempo um pouco louca e principalmente obcecada por puzzles. A jogabilidade é de se esperar , ande , solucione alguns puzzles , babe com o belo cenario , ande para a proxima area tematica , repita. Porem the witness tem muito mais do que parece na superficie. Assim como outros jogos como fez , the witness tem varias camadas de gameplay que sao descobertas a medida que voce joga. Eu estou adorando, nao gosto desta palavra porque ela é muito banalizada hoje em dia mas the witness é uma experiencia maravilhosa. RECOMENDO.

jonathan blow review

Fiquei conhecendo a figura de jonathan blow no filme indie game the movie, o cara é o criador de braid, ele programa em pé porque acha que faz ficar mais inteligente, tem uma cara estranha e uma voz mais estranha ainda. Ao fim do filme jonathan me pareceu competente mas nao era meu personagem preferido , mas o jogo braid me fez ficar com ele na cabeça. Depois fiquei sabendo que ele estava fazendo um novo jogo , é de se esperar de um developer indie que acerta na loteria que corra para o banco e desapareça. Nao é comum acertar na mosca duas vezes e pelo que eu sei jonathan sacrificou possivelmente sua saude financeira futura por este game. Fatos como estes me dao um respeito incrivel por um developer e colocam ele em um patamar lendario, primeiro edmund mcmillen com super meat boy e binding of isaac e agora jonathan blow com braid e the witness. ha um nivel de excelência superior ate as melhores tentativas indie nestes games, coisa de genio. Jonathan Blow é um genio. Ultimamente ando acompanhando Jonathan no youtube fazendo videos de 3 horas sobre programaçao que sao incrivelmente instrutivos e interessantes tanto para um leigo como para um programador veterano. jonathan é um artista , parece que nao se importa com dinheiro apenas em criar e justamente por isso merece nossa grana.

10/10 would code standig up again

PARA USUARIOS DE MAC E SOBRE A PERFORMANCE
Esperei muito tempo para ter este jogo, eu sou um usuario de mac entao tive que esperar para finalmente ter o jogo na minha plataforma. Saiu. FIquei muito feliz porem depois de instalar percebi que ainda nao podia jogar. O jogo precisa do metal (que pelo que eu sei seria um equivalente novo do diretc x so q da apple) , bem o metal so esta no mac os el capitaim e no mac os sierra, eu estava usando yossemite , a vontade era tanta que eu passei por uma mudança de sistema operacional para jogar. Estou postando isso porque é serio. Se voce tem um mac muito velho nao vai conseguir jogar , o meu é um imac fim de 2014 com configuraçoes bem rasoaveis . Estou jogando no medio em hd, quase consigo jogar no hight mas tem areas que lagam muito, uma dica este jogo é "indie" mas é bem pesadinho.

I always have trouble when thinking about how to suggest The Witness to friends and other players; not because it's not worth your time and money, but because it's so hard to explain what makes it so special and why everyone should at least give it a try.

There's no need to lie though: one of the main obstacles with suggesting it is that, at its core, The Witness is a puzzle game; your interactions in the game are exclusively limited to puzzles.
And yet, it's so well crafted that it may be among the best puzzle games ever made to date.

In The Witness, you wake up on an island that you're free to explore, accessing the various areas through completing hundreds of so-called "line puzzles" that are scattered everywhere.
There's no tutorial. There's no pointing arrow. There's not even text, save for the subtitles of various unrelated audio logs you'll find on the island, which are mechanically (but not thematically) unrelated to what you're going through. The Island and its puzzles, via design and balancing, are everything at the same time: they're your tutorial; they're your test; they're your guidance. The whole island is your puzzle, your chest to crack open and treasure to pillage. Progress is your goal, your tool and your reward at the same time, one thin line after the other.

After a brief and enclosed area that teaches you the very basic mechanics of interacting with puzzles, the world will open its gates and start teaching you how to progress via the puzzles themselves. Each area will present you with new rules without stating them, together with easy puzzles that serve the purpose of letting YOU, the player, the guest of the island, infer the rules on your own. As you progress through the areas you will start to understand the game's language, what it tells to you, and your mind will start deconstructing a new puzzle or even rule before you even start actively thinking about it.
But where do I go in this game? What do I do? You do line puzzles. The world will let you know how. The world will let you know where to go. Without saying a word, of course. Go out and explore. Find out for yourself.

The Witness is many things: a journey, a journey inside a journey, an excellent exercise in game and level design, a maieutic process of self-teaching and inductive learning, a beautiful still piece of colorful vistas...
What The Witness isn't, is being a game for everyone. We all have videogame genres that we can't stand, and puzzle games seem to be at least disliked by a vast portion of gamers, if not even hated.
And yet, The Witness manages to reach such high moments, to have such elegance in its design and progression that if you'll ever have to try out a puzzle game to see what the fuss is all about, it's this one.

Do you know that feeling when you finally solve a problem, or a puzzle in a game, and it feels really good? That "ooooh, yes, finally... I got here all on my own! Suck it, game!" feeling?
Now imagine that feeling being distilled, purified, made into a crystal, polished and put it inside a 30 to 40 hour game for you to partake of its beauty.
The Witness is this, and more.

《braid》一直在我心目中属于独立游戏NO.1没有之一，然而时隔7年我都没有关注其作者干啥去了（对不起！），直到游戏发售一个月前才发现作者Jonathan Blow这部把前作赚来的钱全砸进去制作出的作品。

说实话，就正常结局玩完后我的感受是作者要亏本。
因为我意识到，作者制作的不是游戏，而是一件值得人反复品读但仍然琢磨不透的艺术品。

写了一篇关于剧情的解读，纯粹个人观点，比较吹比，谨慎观看
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/4332309218

从预告上就能看出，此游戏的亮点之一便是谜题沙盒化。相比以往的解谜游戏，《portal》系列选择了最为传统的线性关卡，去年的《The Talos Principle》则是经典的选关制。如果说开放式谜题设计的话，《Antichamber》应该算是代表了吧，不过《Anti》的所谓“开放“，其实还是和其他沙盒游戏类似，是以主角自身的“装备”为驱动力的。
所谓“装备”的意思是，游戏虽然提供给你了ABCD这么多场景，你可以先去任何一个场景里逛，可是你必须要解决掉A场景的内容，从而获得“升级”，才能搞定后面的场景。实际上，这基本上是所有游戏都需要做到的。如果不这么做而真的让玩家想去哪就去哪，那游戏的难度就很难均衡化地处理。尤其作为解谜游戏，这是大忌。

本作当然没有真的“沙盒化”。但游戏中并没有任何“装备”的要素，在游戏开始时，主角拥有什么样的能力（我的超能力是画线！o(*￣▽￣*)ブ），在游戏结局时也并没有任何改变。

但整个游戏的谜题却看似松散实则一体，难度也是不断提升的。
因为作者将这个游戏所谓的“升级”概念，与玩家对这个游戏的理解融为了一体。

你到了一个新场景，发现了一堆从没见过的标志。这些标志代表了什么规则，你并不知道，而获取的方法便是在另外一个场景的“教学谜题”中获取。
举个例子，在正常游戏的过程中，一般的玩家都会发现隐藏黑曜石谜题的存在，这也是对游戏本体的一种新理解，此时再回头看看之前已经征服的区域，仿佛又是一个新世界。

如果你提前看了攻略中各种标志的解读，那这个游戏辛苦作出来的各种引导就毫无意义了。

所以，这真是我见过的解谜游戏中最棒的谜题沙盒化，因为它沙盒化的驱动力是

你的脑袋



在我安利基友的时候，基友看完介绍视频的第一个反应是:划屏解锁有这么好玩？

嗯，是的，真的这么好玩。

游戏初期如果还能说是比较简单的话，从海岸那里的双线谜题就开始展现作者的脑洞了（绝大多数玩家的第一道挑战性谜题应该都是这里吧）。全游戏500个谜题，如果说都没有重复的话那倒也是假话，但可以说的是，每一个谜题都是一个不同角度的思考，并且很明显能够感受到作者让你“跳出框架思考“的恶意感。

游戏中最常见的谜题分布通常是5-6个为一组。第1，2个都是让玩家观察本组谜题所要用到的基础性知识(利用阴影？景物？水中倒影？视觉错觉？)，再学会了“知识”后，之后的3-4个谜题则是把之前积累的知识中的某一个细节改变或者剔除，让你换一个角度继续思考。

游戏的谜题质朴但绝不简单，量大但绝不乏味
虽然这些谜题脑洞确实大，但本质上让你做的就只是两件事：观察和思考

当然，很多谜题真的卡了我好久好久的关，但正因这么久时间的煎熬，最后突然被惊醒解出了如此困扰许久的谜题，这种成就感和兴奋感，是别的游戏无法感受到的。

诸君，我爱解谜游戏!

感觉言语的力度还是不足，在“有多么好玩”这点上说再多，还不如自己去玩，在此不赘述了……（其实是字数超了）

如果说《braid》带来的是一个“细思极恐”的故事，那么本作光从命题上就足够令人恐惧了：

生命、宇宙以及任何事情的终极答案

42当然只是一个戏谑的答案，这个答案的正解显然目前也是没有的，但你发现在本作中大量的录音带和视频都在极其严肃地探讨着灵魂，生命，一切的本质时，你可以意识到作者是非常认真地面对这个问题思考了非常非常久。
我们人类究竟如何才能了解到一切事物的真理？哪怕只是轻微触碰到一丁点“神性”?

“接触真理”的方法，作者最为明显的一点，就是想要告诉我们其方法是整个游戏的基础：画线（╯－＿－）╯╧╧。
（这里涉及到剧透就不多谈，可以看看最前面我放的那篇剧情解读）

这里我就直接引用游戏中某段录音带里内容作为本段的结语吧:
“一种突然的跳脱将人从言辞和情理的领域中飞升出来，上升到一种成为“顿悟”的直接体验，引发某种心智的激越。墙壁的大门由至高的理性看守，如果不能克服，进入乐园的路途就不会敞开。这就是乐园之壁，而你，就在乐园之中。”


游戏中我最大的不满意还是没有BGM。
是的，我知道，没有弄音乐是作者故意的，作者想要让我们获得“安静的禅宗体验”，很多谜题也是需要依靠声音破解的。但要知道的是，《braid》的成功，背景音乐为游戏的气氛营造出了很大的一份力。在这个游戏中，将近20个小时的长时间流程，且时常会发生大量卡关的游戏体验中，没有音乐这一点真的会让人非常焦躁。但同时我也不敢自己开轻音乐进行游戏，一是怕音乐会打扰思考，二是怕不合适的音乐风格破坏整个游戏的秩序美感。如果作者在用份心打造出与游戏天衣无缝的音乐的话，真的就更完美了。

好了好了我知道作者你没钱了_(:3)∠)_

另外，游戏后期几个画线标识的规则难度设计实在是有点奇怪。就拿”刺球”（我个人一直这么叫的……好像说成“八角形”更规范？）这个来说，规则未免太复杂了一些，虽然已经通关了我肯定说自己会用这玩意儿解谜，但真的要让我很严谨的写下来这东西运作的具体规则，恐怕还是挺勉强的。应该说，游戏在后期的教学关卡过于简朴，或者说，是把我们都当作天才了吧。

好吧好吧我知道是自己蠢( ╯□╰ )




毫无疑问，解谜游戏有一定的门槛，并不适合所有人。就拿这个游戏而言，它显然需要一定的智力和十足的耐心才能玩下去。《见证者》的难度确实偏高，但高难度带来的高成就感也是其他游戏所无法比拟的。

很高兴自己喜爱解谜游戏，也为那些玩不下去的小伙伴们感到可惜。

尽管评分是件很主观的事情，但我敢保证，任何一个认真玩通关的玩家都会给出和爱基恩一样的分数


10/10

2019年个人最喜爱游戏：The Witness
2020年个人最想实现愿望：被人消除记忆，然后再玩一次The Witness

я eблан

X-COM 2 ye Aral yüzünden 219 lira ödeyeceğinize bu oyuna 60 lira yatırın daha iyi. Hem hırsızlar daha fazla zengin olmasın, hemde siz keyif alıp beyninizi zorlayın. Tabi böyle bir düşüneniz varsa... Hepinize iyi eğlenceler.

Those who love puzzles will not be disappointed, but those who love puzzle GAMES might. I recommend with caveats.

+ The world looks great and it is nice to explore, but...
- The only reward you get for solving a puzzle is another puzzle...and then another and another, and yet more...
+ The puzzles are challenging.
- Most of the puzzles are 2D on a box-grid, and there are large stretches where I really stopped enjoying them.
- The world is dead; no life forms, no sense of the prior civizilation, history, or humanity; just some buildings.

To be honest I cannot say Witness is fun...but it is inherently rewarding (no game rewards) to solve the puzzles and integrate what you learn as you go. Those looking for a story, narrative, meaning, etc. will not be nourished by the 90% of the time spent solving puzzles (9% exploring the island, 1% tedious audio-files and odd videos).

A legjobb puzzle játék a világon!
Ha valaki nem szeret 10 percnél tovább gondolkodni egy feladványon, annak nem ajánlom ezt a játékot, mert néha nagyon nehezek. (ami jó)
A látványvilága nagyon jó.
Rengeteg a szín, és a pálya különböző részein más évszak van. (amit a játék képeiből is látni lehet)
A legjobb, hogy ezek nem egyszerű feladványok, hanem nagyon kreatívak.
Néha a természettel kell megcsinálni egy feladványt.
És nem is kell mindet megcsinálni, ha nem akarod, de akkor nagyon nehéz lesz a játék vége neked.
Ugyanis a játék nem mondja el, de néhány résznél megtanít valami újra, ezért néha az egész pályán át kell menjél azért,
de erre van a csónak, amit a játékban lévő kikötőknél tudsz megszerezni.
Én se véletlenül töltöttem ezzel a játékkal 12 órát. Azt az élményt amit átéltem, az a legjobb élményem volt, amit eddig játék adott.
Nagyon várom a folytatást!
10/10

So many negative reviews for this game recently, and they don't make any sense to me. This game is not about instant gratification, it is about learning how the world works and paying attention to the language it teaches you to use. There are surprises galore, and they just keep coming. I truly believe this game to be a work of art, a labour of love, and a beautifully enjoyable experience. It won't be for everyone, but for players who want something cereberal, rewarding and surprising, and an experience which doesn't lead you by the hand and show you exactly what to do at every turn, get it get it get it! 10/10.

I couldn't recommend The Witness enough. Despite appearances, The Witness is a game that can be very greatly spoiled for the player. It also happens to be a truly singular game in what it managed to accomplish, and for that reason it's very hard to talk about it while not talking about.. y'know, it.

So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to tell you what The Witness is not, and maybe by the end of this you'll have a reasonable idea of what to expect.

The Witness is not Sokoban. Sokoban is a puzzle game with no art or narrative, and it's only about pushing boxes around to solve the puzzles you're given. The Witness isn't just about solving puzzles.

The Witness is not The Talos Principle or The Turing Test. The Talos Principle and The Turing Test are both puzzle games with philosophical narratives, but they're built around generic puzzle elements like connecting lasers and moving boxes around. The Witness doesn't build itself on generic puzzle elements.

The Witness is not Pretentious Game. Pretentious Game is a puzzle game explicitly about connecting what you do in the game to a theme, if admittedly in a self-aware fashion. The Witness won't tell you what it's about.

The Witness is not Portal. Portal is a puzzle game designed to guide you towards eureka moments, to make you feel smart for solving its puzzles. The Witness doesn't guide you towards eureka moments, and often times you'll probably feel pretty stupid when you solve puzzles instead.

The Witness is not accessible. I'm not joking when I say that if you want to finish this game, you'll need to be in full possession of all your faculties. You need to be able to see properly. You need to be able to hear properly. You need to be able to move properly. Not least of all, you need to be able to think properly.

Finally, The Witness is not a puzzle game. It's not about solving puzzles. Solving puzzles just happens to be how you interact with it.

This is not a game.
Trust me.
Don't look anything up.
Do it your way or do it somewhat like me:
Play it in 2017 & get frustrated as it's 'just' line puzzles that get hard relatively quickly.
Give up & don't touch it for 5 years.
Get randomly & obscuredly reminded of it by a weird dream.
Decide to install it that day to give it another chance, which is actually giving yourself another chance.

So, we're 5 years older now, but have we gotten wiser at all?
Be lost so you completely start anew again.
Be in awe every single moment of your very own journey.
Get frustrated at your inadequacy while feeling that every answer is more or less already inside you.
Do you ask yourself the right questiojns though?
Only a fool tries the same ♥♥♥♥ over and over. So just go somewhere else. Rinse & repeat.

Do you feel yet how what you are doing there actually perfectly mirrors what you do in your life?

Wait!
What is that sh/t?
Could it
ACTUALLY
be?!
no way.....
Get floored repeatedly running around for 9 hours straight.
Realize how much smarter you got.
Realize how this IS an action game after all.
Realize how you're well on your way to get 'out-of-the-box'.
Peel yourself away to take a break as nothing substantial can be accomplished in just a day.
Dream the most stable lucid dream yet. Calmly realize that this is not a game despite it being
exactly that; just like life itself. Everything is a matter of perspective. Matter does not matter.
This sh/t may be the single most life-changing, educational tool ever created.
Even what's not fun somehow becomes fun.
And it does so without a single word to read & not a single line heard of any importance for your very own journey.
It shatters any expectations you might have.
I could write a million lines, but it'd be futile.
Try for yourself.
It may take another 5 years for me to turn my life from slave to master while
I'm possibly not even halfway through this 'game' yet.
The journey IS the destination.
And you could find it at any point in time.
Are you taking your right line in your grid yet?
Good Luck! I'll do it my way anyway. I am my very own witness. Are you ready to be your own?

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Hats off to the developer. Thank you very much for supercharging my wit. nes

(handwritten from 827 to 923. 21.12.2022)
(unedited. only nothing is perfect.)

I was really on the fence about this one... But in the end I have to just ask myself, how much did I enjoy playing The Witness? The answer is... Not so much. But I am quite aware this game is a quality product, shockful of stuff to look at, and beautiful words and imagery. It's a bit heartbreaking to give it the thumbs down then. It obviously took a lot of thought and effort to design those puzzles, repetitive as they may be...

I'll start with what I enjoyed: The island is beautiful, colourful, and meticulously crafted, filled with details to find with your eyes and marvel at. There is at least 1 hour of quality video in the game, metaphysical and philosophical speeches and movie clips that I wouldn't have watched if they weren't in the game. I enjoyed those. I enjoyed the theme of the game and the feeling of awareness it's trying to convey. This appeals to me tremendously.

However, it's a puzzle game... And while I don't generally enjoy puzzle games, the first Myst game is one of my favorite games. Just last month I was watching a conference from one of the guys who made Myst, and he said one of the core concepts of Myst was "No arbitrary puzzles". Indeed, in Myst, most puzzles make sense within their world. They are different from one age to the other, from one room to the other, they feel like they belong where they are... It's almost as if you're trying to understand how the people who inhabited these ages lived in order to solve the puzzles...

... However, The Witness is an ode to arbitrary puzzles. An ode to one very repetitive arbitrary puzzle. It developes an incredibly clever Sudoku/coding/pathfinding mini-game that you have to decode, and puts it EVERYWHERE. Sure, you often need to observe the superbly clever environments to figure out the code to these "puzzles on a pad", but in the end, almost all of your time in The Witness will be spend looking at these pad puzzles. There are hundreds of them.

One of the intelligent things The Witness does is teach you its complicated puzzle-solving language. It does so magnificiently. I thought that, once I'd learned the language, I'd feel great and power through the puzzles. Nope. Knowing the code is not enough. The game keeps hammering you with more complex forms of the same puzzle, with arbitrary difficulties thrown in. Often times you know exactly what you are supposed to do, yet you have to spend 10 minutes doing it, trying going different paths and whatnot... It's hard to explain without spoiling the puzzle system itself... But that's the key of my displeasure; you understand you're supposed to split these coloured pips from these coloured pips, you have to trace a path through it all... But the path never works, it's blocked by various things, it's annoying. The puzzle isn't hard because of the awesome code you decoded, it's hard because of the "pathfinding" element. And that element is always the same, over and over and over. It quickly became tiring, frustrating.

I wanted to love this game. And in many ways I do. I thank it for the journey and its philosophy. But by the 15th hour, I couldn't take the puzzles anymore. I'd recommend The Talos Principle over The Witness. Like Myst, The Talos Principle also had the benefit of having an intriguing story. And some of its philosophy was engrossing also. I also hit puzzle fatigue in The Talos Principle, and it also suffered from arbitrary puzzles... The two games share that problem when compared to Myst. But it seemed less extreme with Talos, especially because it was backed by story.

So in the end, I don't necessarily "not recommend" The Witness. But you really, REALLY have to be a puzzle-game fan in my humble opinion.

I do commend it for doing what it wants, with no compromise. I tip my hat off to the team behind this challenging and visionnary game. This alone almost makes me want to give the game a thumbs up. But... I didn't really feel good playing the game because of its puzzles...

操作：一笔画。（视角中，圆点相连的一条有尾巴得线！）
目标：解迷。（为了解锁下一个解迷，永远都是迷）
工具：大脑。（听觉，逻辑推理，图像识别，预判心算，记忆力，+耐心）

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1年前，IGN评分10分 ，抱着被震撼的期望下载了盗版，玩了20分钟……除了强烈的眩晕感（当时不知道调鼠标灵敏度）没有惊人之处，平淡无奇，可以说就是看风景散步游戏。

1年过去了，看到steam上的50%OFF，又看了看桌面上的盗版图标，毕竟以前也玩过就补一份正吧，至少风景也很不错。
在受到几款动作游戏通关洗礼后，心真的已经累了，我注意到 “THE WITNESS” ，至少简单的一笔画不会让你紧迫，
打开游戏
20分钟后……真是傻瓜玩的游戏
2个小时以后……有趣
6个小时后……还算有挑战
12小时以后……这什么鬼
24小时以后……？！？！
48小时以后……原来我是个傻瓜

当你打开音乐盒的那一刻，你会明白一切的努力都是值得的！
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是假·休闲，是真·烧脑！

The easiest way to tackle a problem is more often to explain it as simple as possible, and the most succinct and fair way I could ever express the appeal of The Witness is to ask yourself: "What/Who are you witnessing?"

When I look at an artsy game that knows it will appear provocative, or here in The Witness of being so pretentious it deflates any meanings made by others, I often ask why a developer would go to such lengths, either by gameplay or by story, to make something so unclear. The only answer I can accept is it's about introspection, not of a revelation inflated by the ego of the creator(s) but about the player's own understanding.

In short, to play The Witness is to witness how far you can manage the intangible hamster-wheel in your head spinning before you bail out with an answer or you give up to spin the wheel some other day. If you don't mind the struggle, then The Witness can truly be an enlightening experience it wants you to believe it is.


In order to discuss what works and what doesn't work for puzzles, I have to talk about WHAT skills the puzzles test, not HOW they test your skills to their limits. I would compare this section to describe the themes of a book rather than spoiling the plot, so the experience itself is not tarnished and you can understand what I mean.

For the Witness, there are three core tasks you perform:

1) Metacognition ("How do you know what you know?")
2) Spatial Awareness ("Frame-of-Reference")
3) Apophenia ("The Tetris Effect")

As someone who learned about childhood cognitive development, I think the term metacognition, "to think beyond your own thinking process," is the simplest way to describe The Witness's biggest selling point. In order to get anywhere in the game you have to think about the hows and whys you reached an answer, and once you check your assumptions to be correct you have mastered the lesson.

In terms of gaming, imagine a Metroidvania where you are given all the abilities from the start but you're never told how to use them (i.e. Toki Tori 2). There are no arbitrary requirements like getting the Super Bomb; the challenge is not having the answer to the problem, but figuring out how the tool works as well as when and where it is to be used. That process is how the Witness works, and like any proper Metroidvania game you can sequence break it if you understand the rules.

Unlike the unfair Myst comparison which operates by fiddling with various puzzles with little, if any, instruction, ALL puzzles in The Witness operate under the one explicit rule in an open environment: You draw a line from a circle to an exit-way.

To keep this idea from stagnating, the puzzles add new modifiers that either change how you read a screen or they incorporate an awareness of your surroundings for clues. This idea holds true not only for the environment itself but also the screens you work with, drawing your attention to more than into a flat-screen.

As for the open-world design of the puzzles, it is effective and not confusing because every location on the island tests one major skill, which is indicated on the boat's map, and the optional challenges (and the town) are there to persuade you to go explore elsewhere. The result naturally rewards the repetition of learning the codes/rules by clearing up misconceptions and the interconnected nature of all the puzzles sharing the same core gameplay helps you find connections.

This interconnected awareness on a simple idea is what many would probably describe as "The Tetris Effect" (another example is the Number 23 movie). You see the repeating patterns, the rules and the answers everywhere by the mere repetition of a simple task like drawing lines, which instills a schizophrenic view of the false appearance of meaning that only a video-game could make you believe is real.

When all of these tasks blend so effortlessly together, the sense of reward you find makes the struggle worth the time, and in that regard The Witness succeeds at conveying ALL rules with zero written or verbal communication in a short amount of time.


However, and this is a black mark on an otherwise flawless puzzle game, there are challenges that go too far to be reasonable for all players. You may be thinking I pulled a random number from nowhere, but out of 532 screen puzzles I required help for 31 either by a hint (or an answer) from a guide when I understood the rules or by having the right "frame-of-reference" to do the puzzle.

The latter problem is best explained by the controls; you are locked on your screen to do a puzzle. If you unclick it to get a better position, then your solution is undone. For this issue, some may argue that I could jot them down; however, it's the pixel-perfect angles for a few problems that I could not stand. As for fixing this issue, it would be nice if the game took a page from TRI by letting you deselect the cursor and move. (Yes, it would break some puzzles but I rather not let the limitations of the controls confuse players.)

The first problem is more a subjective concern as there are some puzzles that will be impossible for people hard of hearing, colorblind, prone to seizures/epilepsy, motion-sickness and/or have poor visibility due to the game's resolution or their eyesight. The frequency of these challenges varies by locations as well as their overall difficulty, which complicates an experience that teaches solely by observation.

As a result of both issues in a game with no guidance, this 5% of uncertainty, which I feel is being generous, is too much to instill doubt in the player's ability to complete every puzzle.

This is why I think the game tests the limitations of what you know by testing all learning styles, rather than focusing solely on one. As someone who learns best by seeing and by interacting, I struggled where a more abstract person would find it trivial; the result may be vice-versa, different and/or equal to another type of challenge.

I would let this problem slide if not for how the game, not the story, ends.


You may be wondering if you have not played why I discredit any meaning or narrative being real. It's because, contrary to what Mr. Blow says on Steam, to 100% complete this game it does not respect your time nor is every puzzle different.

By far the most absurd optional puzzles are the two-hour long videos you have to watch, and one is over an hour long. These aren't rewards as you have to watch them to complete a puzzle, and all six videos range from Richard Feynman to a guy who can't recognize time to a privileged woman asking you to give up on ambitions. Like the puzzles themselves, it's all about perspectives and discrediting any universal meaning behind them.

On top of the 532 puzzles, there are over 140 more you will have to do which do not teach you anything new. These puzzles, in contrast to the ones that teach you something new, are busy-work for only the most ambitious of fans.

However, even if you only are interested in figuring out all the rules, the end-game content at the Mountain has the most asinine puzzles. It's a shame because between having the most frustrating puzzles there are also a few worth trying. This sudden fall of quality isn't a fair-challenge, especially when it introduces new health hazards, which will quickly erode any player-trust left. It is so sudden that it will make you wonder if the game has spiteful sentiments towards people who don't get it.


When I think about my time with The Witness, I am reminded of how much I despise Dark Souls 1 after the drop in quality after arriving at Anor Londo; do you judge the game as a whole for the moments of bliss, or the fumbling fall to the end? I can only recommend this game to those who want to witness the answer for themselves.

玩了40分钟恶心的不行（生理上） 本来想刷个牙退款，结果刷牙时候竟然想把牙齿连线！瞬间觉得这个游戏不一般！！

给晕3D的兄弟们一点建议：

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Jeśli jesteś fanem gier logicznych, lubisz zabawę perspektywą, uwielbiasz zagadki środowiskowe, czerpiesz przyjemność z łączenia kropek i rysowania linii, podobają Ci się gry z przyjemną dla oka, kolorową grafiką, masz słabość do pięknego otoczenia i widoków zapierających dech w piersiach, przywiązujesz dużą wagę do szczegółów, nie przeszkadza Ci brak jakiejkolwiek muzyki w grze, nie masz nic przeciwko męczeniu się przez kilka godzin nad jedną zagadką, nie jesteś nastawiony na zakończenie najlepsze z najlepszych, to jest to gra specjalnie dla ciebie i gorąco Ci ją polecam.

Für mich jetzt schon ein Jahreshighlight!

Klare Empfehlung für alle, die Spiele wie The Talos Principle, Antichamber, Portal oder Stanley Parable mögen und ein wenig Frusttolleranz mitbringen. (Die vielen negativen Reviews kommen vermutlich von Leuten mit dünnem Gedultsfaden)

Der wichtigste Tipp für das Spiel:
Ist ein Rätsel zu schwer? --> Liegen lassen, später wieder kommen. (ja, wirklich...)


PS.: Im Vorfeld hatte ich schon von Leuten gehört, die sich irgendwann einen Zettel und Stift daneben gelegt haben und habe mir gedacht "so schlimm wird's schon nicht werden...".
Tatsächlich habe ich mir irgendwann auch Zettel und Stift besorgt und auf dem 2. Monitor mit Paint gearbeitet... ^^

请大家想想——所有游戏的共同点是什么呢？

事实上，所有游戏的共同点是：学习。

在FPS里你需要学怎么开枪，在什么时候开枪。RTS更不用说了，单位编制，包抄突围，必修的战术。如果说Braid把游戏的重心放在了：时间。那The Witness的核心则是：学习。

想必大家都有过这样的老师——他兢兢业业，交完1+1=2接着教1+2=3，“那1+3等于几呢”看着底下目瞪口呆的孩子，他叹了口气。正像某些游戏——它们循循善诱：“这开一枪，对，然后到那回血，换弹药，棒！再出来开几枪！“他们生怕因为”不会玩“葬送了你的兴致。The Witness不是这样的一款游戏——事实上，它生怕你会玩。在游戏的前两个小时里我看到一个在格子里画着俄罗斯方块的谜题——5×5的方格，起点与终点没有任何阻拦，只是某一个方格里有一个俄罗斯方块。很显然，我才习得的——连接空点和分割色块的能力都不足以完成这样的任务——我卡关了！我接着往前走，走了不知多久，看见了一个2×2的方格，在一个格子中同样有一个俄罗斯方块，可这个要简单得多。我没用多长时间就得出了答案。紧接着前面路上这样的谜题越来越多——3×3的，两个格子里都有俄罗斯方块的…好在难度循序渐进，我很快也掌握了这种方法。紧接着我折回一开始没想出来的“5×5”问题，费了些时间但也得出答案。关着的门开了。我怔住了——这不就是学习的过程么？

由易到难，由单一到多元。符号单词算式——无一不是工具，而他们通向的都是最终的结果。The Witness是我见过的最好的“老师”。

言归正传：The Witness至少需要解决400个谜题才能通关。事实上，在游戏的前两个小时，你基本可以不费脑子解决掉70个谜题。在此之后，“学习”就派上用场了。尽管很多人都在吐槽它是款“一笔画”模拟器。可当“一笔画”与水面的倒影，阳光的反射，树上的水果，脚下土地的声音，甚至于光谱图联系起来时，它就没那么简单了。游戏里有高山雪原，亦有沙漠雨林，海边也有杳无人烟的城镇和废弃的船只。但无一例外地——它们都很安静、优雅。游戏采用了最近流行的高对比度+低多边形风格（镜之边缘＋奇异人生）。这种画面给人带来的一大感觉就是低龄。但别被它骗了，事实上（与Braid相似）游戏难度在前期呈直线下降——依靠经验就能解出大部分题目。游戏中期（大概解到150左右谜题时）难度直线上升，需要学习的技能也多了起来。事实上，在游戏一开始，我觉得这座岛屿也就仅仅是个“小岛”。但它远比看上去的大。游戏环境是立体的，也就意味着，在大多数时刻，你都要同时处理至少两层的谜题。谜题与谜题之间多由导线相连，若是解开了。导线就会发出与周围环境相类似的光，煞是好看。

游戏本身有Storyline,但极其晦涩（就像Braid），游戏过程中能找到U盘，里面的信息大多与神学/文学相关。游戏里有一段可以观看的幻灯片，大抵意思是：“人们所欣赏的诗歌绘画，大抵都是对世界的二次反映，而那些被称为是科学的，不美的东西，才是这个世界本来的样子。随着技术的进步，人们逐渐忘记了学习的能力。可果有一天技术消亡呢？“游戏里能看见原来岛上的居民，但却不能肯定他们究竟是活生生的人还是石雕。到目前为止我用了6个多小时的时间，解出了170个谜题，搭建3束激光。这样看来确实能玩100多小时，因为现在已经出现无法理解的谜题了…

总而言之，现在购入这款游戏的朋友大抵都是JB的真爱，而且也玩过Braid.如果你两个都不是，仅仅是因它的艺术风格慕名前来，那最好不要碰这款游戏。还有一件事，游戏没有BGM，但按照JB的脾气，肯定会有几首“神曲“的。


一点想法：

1：Braid的灵感主要来源于《哥德尔埃舍尔巴赫，集异璧之大成》。这款游戏少了Braid悲天悯人的调调，更多的是对技术革命的反思。觉得游戏里的某些场景与卡尔维诺的《看不见的城市》和博尔赫斯的《小径分岔的花园》有些像，所以是不是能从这两本书里推测出游戏的剧情呢？

2：Braid在集齐7颗星之后会有真结局，是不是这款游戏同Braid一样，也有真伪结局之分？那真结局触发条件又是什么呢？在Reddit上看到游戏里的小路河流也都能用一笔画进行直接操控，这些又与游戏本身有什么关系呢？

3:游戏里常常能看见与游戏艺术风格很违和的黑色石碑，靠近以后会发出嗡嗡的诡异声响——这与游戏本身又有什么关系呢？

欢迎大家的讨论

Antes de empezar este análisis tengo que dejar clara una cosa. Braid es uno de mis juegos favoritos, tiene un pequeño hueco en mi corazón y es una de esas pequeñas perlas que jamás olvidare. Por eso y por muchas cosas más en cuanto escuche que Jonathan Blow y su estudio estaban creando un juego nuevo una luz se encendió dentro de mí. Poco tiempo después apareció la web ♥♥♥ el nombre “The Witness” y me encontré como un adicto entrando a cada rato para ver qué pasaba. De eso hace un par de años ya…

Y sin darme cuenta, aquí estamos. El juego ha salido, lo he comprado, lo he explorado y lo he completado… Aun que esa última afirmación, como pasaba ♥♥♥ Braid, no es tan fácil de decir.

¿He completado The Witness? Pues la verdad… No lo sé… Siento que me falta algo.

Pero dejemos de aburrir a la gente, queréis saber lo bonito que es el juego, no leerme a mí. Así que, allá vamos.
The Witness es un juego de puzzles. Fin. No es una aventura, no es un walking simulator, no es Portal, no es The Talos Principle, no es Q.U.B.E, no mezcla aventura, una historia hermosa y un gameplay revolucionaro. The Witness son puzzles. No entres aquí esperando la mejor narrativa del siglo (Como para muchos fue Bioshock Infinite) o el nuevo esplendor jugable y revolucionario que marco Antichamber en su salida. Aquí hay puzzles. Un escenario hermoso, sin duda, pero lo que predomina son los puzzles y sus variantes.

Este juego es un Sandbox de puzzles. Estas en una isla enorme (Es mucho más grande de lo que parece en sus fotos) y está plagada de terminales (Todos iguales en forma pero de diferente resolución) ♥♥♥ puzzles. Hay gente que sostiene que podríamos borrar el escenario, ordenar los puzzles uno detrás de otro y no notaría la diferencia. Por suerte, no es así. El paisaje por el que te mueves es de lo más bonito y simplista que he visto nunca. El juego de colores, luces, escenarios, variedad… Todo, es hermoso. Merece la pena.

Los puzzles son difíciles, si. No esperes una aventura fácil. Eso sí, no son imposibles. Algunos rozan la barrera de la locura pero todo tiene solución. El juego no es frustrante, te enseña poco a poco. Es el “Dark Souls” de los puzzles. Si llegas a un sitio y algo es demasiado difícil, es que no debes ir por ahí. Busca en otro lado y encontraras ese mismo puzzle pero menos avanzado, poco a poco tu mismo serás el tutorial. Aprendes solo a hacer todo. Al final de cada sección te descubres ♥♥♥ una sonrisa en la cara y el sentimiento de superación propio, nadie te ha ayudado, lo has hecho todo por ti mismo. Eres grande, eres inteligente. Mereces avanzar.

Eso es lo mejor que tiene The Witness. El sentimiento que te deja al resolver. El buen sabor de boca, esa es su recompensa. Pero… Eso es lo peor también. Esa es su única recompensa. El juego apenas tiene historia, resolver una sección de puzzles no te enseña un pedazo nuevo de su mundo, no te da algo tangible. No reconocerás avances, la isla está igual cuando acabas que cuando empiezas. Es el punto más negativo que tiene. Algunas de sus narraciones y partes de su historia son innecesariamente profundas. Es bonito, te hace reflexionar, pero desencajan parcialmente. Hay cosas inconexas, no terminas de comprender que sucede, tu avance solo te lleva al final del juego. Pero no a su aclaración. Por un momento piensas que su argumento esta, al igual que el escenario, suspendido en el tiempo. No avanza, no retrocede, no puedes tocarlo, no puedes modificarlo, no puedes hacer nada ♥♥♥ él. Te mira impasible sin retorcer ni un ápice de su historia. Y cuando llegas al final… Tienes aun más preguntas. Pero las respuestas no parecen estar en ningún lado.

Es mi mayor pega. Es lo que más me ha defraudado. Braid tenía un gran componente narrativo. Si bien, el señor Blow nunca llego a explicar que pasaba en realidad, te contaba millones de cosas. ♥♥♥ The Witness tenían oportunidad de repetir eso. Pero no lo han hecho. Todo es críptico, cerrado, hermético. Necesito más, quiero más… Pero no lo voy a tener. Por eso siento que aun me falta algo. Pero no se siquiera si existe lo que busco.
En cuanto a su modo de juego es simple. Se puede apreciar en cualquier foto o gameplay. Un tableto, un punto de partida y una línea que tienes que llevar al final. Pero va cambiando el planteamiento. Colores, formas, sonido.

Diferentes reglas. Y eso es algo bueno a la vez que un impedimento para algunas personas. Alguna gente ♥♥♥ diferentes problemas de deficiencia cromática/auditiva han reportado su imposibilidad de finalizar el juego. Pero es algo que se soluciona temporalmente ♥♥♥ un vistazo a una guía. Estropea la inmersión, si… Pero este juego es grande y variado, tienes que estar dispuesto a diferentes vertientes del mismo juego, no solo a uno.
Por último me gustaría remarcar sobre su precio, quiero escribir mas sobre esto pero no me entra. Si, es caro. Para mi vale cada euro que he pagado por el juego. Pero teniendo en cuenta la cantidad de variedad de juegos que tenemos en el mercado, tiene un precio algo alto ¿Merece la pena?... Si. Yo volvería a pagarlo. Sin duda. Creo que el estudio indie merece todo el apoyo que piden ♥♥♥ el precio. Se puede ver el gran trabajo que han hecho y es entendible que pidan a cambio. Querría expandirme mas sobre este tema. Oferta/Demanda, competencia, disponibilidad del usuario a pagar la suma etc... Pero no hoy, ni aquí.


Puntos positivos:

- Un gran juego de puzzles.
- Apartado visual impecable, hermoso.
- Apartado sonoro maravilloso. Una BSO de 10/10
- Gameplay exigente pero que te ayuda a amoldarte. Puzzles desafiantes, te reta a completar todo. Un total de más de 700 puzzles y ninguno es igual que el anterior.
- El entorno. Todo su mapa es bonito. Las localizaciones perfectas, todo bien ensamblado, todo es diferente… Pero todo encaja.


Puntos negativos:

- Su historia. Corta, da la sensación de estar incompleta. Difícil de entender. Todo usuario pide más, pero no se sabe si existe más.
- Poco interactivo. Todo se siente de “cartón piedra” al no tener efecto sobre el mundo. Todo está quieto, no puedes tocar nada, mover nada. A veces es un poco frustrante.
- Algunas secciones del juego son muy difíciles/imposibles para algunas personas… Pero… Es de entender, se perdona en cierta parte.
- El precio. No quería añadirlo pero he decidido ponerlo. Para algunas personas puede ser demasiado y teniendo en cuenta la variedad para elegir tal vez el usuario medio tire primero a otros títulos que a este.


Resumen:

The Witness es un GRAN juego de puzzles. Remarco la palabra “Puzzles” dado que de eso se trata. No busques profundidad narrativa. No busques interacción. Busca puzzles, desafiantes, difíciles, impasibles. Pero ven por los puzzles. Se ve bonito, se escucha bonito pero… Sientes que le falta algo. Profundidad narrativa, misterio, aclaraciones. No hablamos de la calidad, hablamos de la cantidad. Como si le faltase un trozo al puzzle que es The Witness en sí. Un trozo que se siente importante. Cuando he acabado una parte de mí esta triste. Otra se siente orgullosa de haber completado este gran título.

Pero en este caso. No sé cuál de esas sensaciones es mas grande.

I would recommend this game if you love puzzles to the point where you would feel more inclined to finish solving a crossword than be on time for your child's custody hearing.

這款2016推出的解謎遊戲《The Witness》，可能各位都不陌生，因為作者在8年前推出的《Braid時空幻境》在解謎類型的遊戲投下了震撼彈，而原作將Braid的遊戲獲益全數用於《The Witness》而且還花到沒錢，那耗資龐大經費帶來的遊戲內容究竟如何呢？

A. 遊戲簡介、特色

The Witness的遊戲背景在一開始即說明得非常清楚：玩家在一座陌生的小島醒來，然後完成各式各樣的謎題以達成結局。而遊戲的謎題建立在一個最大的基礎下：一筆劃。沒錯，所有的謎題都是一筆完成，只要能夠在一筆畫之內連接起點與終點即可以完成謎題，請別想得太過輕鬆，遊戲的難度絕對超出你的想像。

《The Witness》其中一大特點就是「開放式解謎」，玩家可以無所限制小島的各地完成謎題，在不同的區域都有屬於該處的特色，例如：在沙漠地區的一筆畫謎題必須要觀察太陽光的反射才能找到答案；在樹林中則需要聽聲音的節奏與音調才能解決謎題(很抱歉還沒學習怎麼在評論上傳截圖，不然說明更清楚XD)。簡而言之，作者將一筆劃謎題發揮至極限，沒有具備豐富的想像力你根本無法完成所有的問題。

除了以上所提及的可見特色，「遊戲中有極為大量的隱藏要點」！沒錯，這款遊戲中最酷的就是不可見的要素：第一：沒有任何的音樂，頂多只有風吹草動還有走路的聲音，當你在遊戲中聽到「非常規」的聲響，那絕對是有詐XD。第二：遊戲中有很多的玩弄空間的「視覺藝術」，注意觀看各地物件會發現一些不同的景象。第三：玩家可能會在各個地區發現一些不尋常的小秘密與謎題，更重要的是：遊戲的結局不只一個，完成的方式也不盡相同，值得喜歡探索的玩家細細體會。

B. 小小心得

這款遊戲其實非常容易介紹，因為整座島的謎題都是利用「一筆劃」的原則作為架構，只是，遊戲的難度可以算是歷來的解謎遊戲中數一數二的。你沒有辦法一蹴可幾，為什麼？即使你當下看到的每一道謎題都是可以被完成的，你可能不具備「完成這道謎題的知識」，玩家可能需要完成某些區域的謎題才會發現「阿，原來這邊可以用這種方法完成。」如果你在遊玩的時候不知道要如何隔開不同顏色的方塊，你絕對沒辦法搞清楚其他區域的類似謎題......這種情況在《The Witness》中屢見不鮮。

《The Witness》最具爭議的應該就是隱晦的故事劇情，很多玩家在完成這款遊戲之後仍然無法明瞭這款遊戲之目的，加上遊戲中對於劇情說明的情報可以算是少之又少，大家都遊玩經驗應該大同小異：看到漂亮的風景；困難的謎題，然後內心一直罵這題怎麼會這麼難啊XD。根據作者的言論，《The Witness》的遊戲取向本來就不是以商業為目的，而是他一直以來想要完成的夢想。

嘛，反正就我的遊玩感受，我只覺得我被作者給整了XDDDD因為這款遊戲真的難到爆炸，一個題目想到頭昏腦脹還是想不出來，建議各位卡關的時候，去洗個臉；走一走，可能回來以後就開竅了，就跟大家小時候學數學一樣(?)

對我而言，就算這款遊戲的劇情述說方式可能不為多數人所喜愛，但是能夠讓我專注在解謎的世界中，心無旁騖的完成各種「不人道」的謎題，我仍然極力推薦各位能夠花上一個假日享受《The Witness》帶給你的獨特經驗。

C. 整體評分、優缺點

畫面：8/10
音樂：無評分
劇情：?/10
遊戲性：9.5/10
耐玩性：8.5/10

優點：
○謎題的設計優良，雖然難度曲線與遊玩時間並非線性相關(玩3個小時你就懂了)
○題目非常多，你會像是回到高中拿著題庫本每一頁都寫的感覺
○Hardcore類型遊戲愛好者極力推薦，另外也沒有太多需要技術的操作，手殘黨福音

缺點：
●多數人提及的「劇情交代不清」，如果想要體驗劇情者不推薦
●想要輕鬆玩這款遊戲的可以左轉，難度跟大多數遊戲不是一個檔次

懶人包：高難度、多結局的解謎遊戲，不推薦給想要欣賞劇情與輕鬆玩遊戲的玩家，
除此之外，僅僅因為這些謎題，就值得我大力推薦各位嘗試《The Witness》這款遊戲被遊戲玩。

나의 스팀 입문으로 braid를 해본 뒤 든 생각은 '게임에도 이런 것이 있구나' 였다.
감명깊게 그 게임을 플레이한 후, 나는 Jonathan Blow의 신작 The witness를 기다리게 되었다.
2014년 말.
2015년 초.
2015년 중반.
이렇게 연기되어가는 출시날짜에 나의 멘탈은 아작나기도 했지만 마침내 2016년 1월에 나온다는 소식을 듣고 얼마나 기뻤는지 모른다.(이 게임을 하려고 PS4를 구입한 상태였으나 아시아 PSN이.... 또르르)
이 게임이 집에서 돌아가지 않는다는 것을 안 나는 멘붕을 경험한 뒤 PC방 생활을 전전하다가 잠시 게임을 접었다.
그때까지만 해도 든 생각은 역시 참신하고 재미있는 퍼즐이지만 아까운 배경을 놔두고 판떼기에만 집중해야한다는 사실이었다.
기대한 만큼 만족감을 느꼈으나 살짝 아쉬운 점이 없지않아 있는 상태였다.

얼마 전 다시 한 번 해볼까 하고 플레이한 나는 이 게임으로부터 새로운 점을 느꼈다.
이 게임의 주된 활동은 판떼기 보고 퍼즐을 맞추는 것이었지만, 그것이 다는 아니라는 것이다.(분명히 제작자 이 사람도 판떼기만 잇는 퍼즐을 내놓았다간 부족한 게임이 될 것이라고 예상했을 것이다.)
그런 점을 나는 지형 퍼즐들이 보완해주었다고 생각한다.
판 위의 퍼즐들이 조금은 '고정적'이라고 말할 수 있다면, 지형 퍼즐은 조금 더 '활동적'이라고 할 수 있다. (예를 들면 마을에서 레이저 반사판을 이용한 구름 퍼즐이라든지) 도대체 퍼즐이 몇개나 더 남았는지는 모르겠지만 도전과제를 둘 다 달성하고 지형퍼즐까지 합해 600여개의 퍼즐을 풀어보니 그래도 이 게임은 균형이 잡힌 게임이었다는 생각이 든다.
많은 사람들이 안 좋게 평가하는 '이야기의 전무'라는 것에 대해 말해보자면 나는 이 게임이 이야기가 없기 때문에 부정적인 평가를 받는 것은 문제가 있다고 생각한다.이 게임에 이야기가 있었다고 해서 이 게임이 목적을 더 효과적으로 달성할 수 있었을 것이라고 생각하지도 않는다. 제작자가 자신의 의도를 전달하기에는 여러 개의 녹음기로도 충분했다고 생각한다.
가장 인상깊었던 것 중에 하나는 크레딧 끝 부분에 나오는 짤막한(충분히 길지만 the secret of psalm 46보다는 매우 짧은) 영상인데, 둥그런 것을 찾아 헤메는 남자의 모습에서 마치 게임을 플레이하는 나의 모습을 발견한 것 같았다. 실제로도 이 게임을 플레이한 후 둥그런 것을 보고 있으면 누르고 싶은 충동이 일어나기도 했다. 어쩌면 그 영상이 게임의 제작 의도를 가장 잘 설명하고 있다고도 할 수 있겠다.

결론적으로 이 게임은, 퍼즐의, 퍼즐에 의한, 퍼즐을 위한 게임이라고 할 수 있다. 퍼즐이 즐겁다면 이 게임이 즐거울 것이고, 퍼즐이 골치아프다면 이 게임이 골치아플 것이다.
braid를 플레이할 당시 나의 생각은 '과연 이런 수준의 게임이 다시 나올 수 있을까' 였는데, 놀라운 점은 이 게임이 나에게 그런 게임이 되었다는 것이다. Jonathan Blow 이 사람의 놀라운 점은 자신이 자기 자신을 넘어섰다는 점이라고 생각한다.
10/10

在《银河系漫游指南》里，一台超级电脑经过漫长的运算，得到了宇宙终极问题的答案——42。大伙都懵逼了：为什么是42？电脑回答：要知道这个答案的意义，你得先知道宇宙终极问题本身是什么。

《见证者》的解谜过程就是一个寻找问题的过程，没有任何教学，直接把你扔到一个满是谜题的世界里。你需要在一系列从简单到复杂的题板上学习谜题的规则：第一次，随便一画就对了；第二次，试了两次也对了；于是你开始总结背后的逻辑规则，并把它应用在第三块题板上，得到可能的几条路线，但是为什么这条可以而那条不可以？你再据此假设出新的、更具体的条件附加在已有的规则上，在第四块题板上进行验证；如此进行下去，直到掌握颠扑不破的宇宙真理。这个“实践-假设-验证-完善”的学习规则的过程，无疑比掌握规则之后的解谜更激动人心，这也是《见证者》超越了普通的一笔画游戏的关键所在。

基本规则只有六七种，学会了所有规则之后，游戏会不会变得平淡呢？并不会。你很快会发现，在某些题板上，解谜条件是缺失的。考验观察力和联想力的时候到了，你需要联系环境中的形状、颜色、光影、声音，为这些谜题做完形填空，并且环境本身也隐藏着一些类似彩蛋的谜题。随着对它们发掘越来越多，你终将意识到整个岛屿——这个世界及里面的万物都是谜面的一部分。游戏的环境设计可以做到这种程度，真是令人叹为观止。

相对于精彩的谜题设计，本作在叙事方面平庸许多。《时空幻境》中卡尔维诺风格的文本至今仍是我见过最好的游戏文本，但是《见证者》让我失望，它投机取巧地大量使用名人名言。装有名言的录音笔散落在岛屿上，体积小，位置隐蔽，不借助攻略全收集十分困难。内容乍一听有些哲学意味，听多了会发现就是那么几个概念的同义反复，未免有故弄玄虚之嫌。此外还有几段视频，也是老调重弹，且长度令人发指。尽管后期的某些音频暗示背后仍有剧情，将叙事上升到了元叙事的层面，但是讲真，元叙事也不算什么新鲜东西了，不能改变本作叙事简单、含糊、破碎的事实。其实我觉得游戏不一定要有剧情，按照本作的游戏素质来看，完全删掉叙事成分，让每个玩家产生见仁见智的感悟应该会更好。（然而小伙伴看我玩这个会提出“你跑来跑去不用吃饭吗”的疑问，也许对于某些玩家来说，剧情确实是必不可少的吧。）

另一个重大缺陷是没有地图，你能想象一个3D眩晕的路痴在一座地形高低起伏路径错踪复杂还有机关和秘道的岛上原地打转的绝望吗？这个缺陷在找彩蛋时更加明显。首先要说明，本作的彩蛋设计确实巧妙，但是有些也确实强人所难，不仅要在特定角度，还要在特定时间甚至满足特定条件之后才能看到，有那么两个更是让我再次体会到《时空幻境》花两个小时等星星的恶意。要想不借助攻略找这些彩蛋，需要走遍这个岛屿每个可以到达的角落，并且走一步停一步，360度无死角地观察一遍，即使这样都不能保证没有遗漏。我们需要一张地图以及更具体的彩蛋位置提示，作者不肯给我们，强行延长我们的游戏时间，但是这个游戏并不适合长时间玩，除了3D眩晕的问题，还因为画面饱合度太高（谜题与颜色相关，又与环境相关，环境就只能色彩斑斓），容易产生视觉疲劳。

综上所述，在点亮所有11道激光，找到至少一个结局之前，强烈不建议看任何形式的攻略，你将获得10/10的游戏体验；当剩下的只是找齐彩蛋和录音笔时，强烈建议看攻略，否则就不是体验几分的问题了，你可能三年都玩不完这游戏。

+++++精彩绝伦的谜题设计
-画蛇添足的剧情
-让玩家腿遍全图的恶意
-游戏核心机制的限制，使得画面饱合度过高，有伤美感
总评：9/10

if there's one thing this game is good at it's making you feel like you have a learning disability

완전 수상하죠?

今天，是非常值得庆祝的一天。

因为我攒齐了steam上公认的四大【3D眩晕高分解谜游戏】。

它们分别是：无限回廊、塔罗斯法则、传送门2、见证者。

对应链接请见个人资料页的游戏展示，不多说了我再去吐一会儿......

パズルから逃げるな

This game is for hardcore puzzle gamers, period. This is not a game where you are a character *interacting* with a puzzle, like Portal, Talos Principle, Qube, etc. You are a character *doing* puzzles, more akin to crosswords and the American DAT's Perceptual Ability Test.

It's also hardcore in the sense that it's...well...hard. Way harder than any of the games identified above. Some sections of the game are downright unfair (cough tree shadow puzzles cough). In fact, if you are hearing impaired or color-blind, you may not be able to complete a significant portion of the puzzles.

With that said, it's good to burn your brain every now and then, and this is the mechanism to make that happen. It's like watching the HBO show The Wire: it won't be your favorite show - hell, you may not even enjoy it - but you keep coming back to it because it makes you feel smart...

...And oh God do I feel dumb playing The Witness.

SUMMARY: If it's $15 or less, buy it. If you need to pay $40 to feel smart, then you need to do some serious self-reflection.

真的，啥都好，就是3d没做明白让人吐
——
好在我第二天玩的时候症状消失了。
（然后第二天20小时过去了，通关了（ED1））
——
吹哥的游戏不要HUD（抬头显示），因为有自信，没必要
（能做到无hud就能玩的精彩游戏都不简单）

我最喜欢的地方是
除了第一条线，可解锁的语音和视频外，没有任何人类语言

唯一的教程：
移动：WSAD，鼠标调视角
第一条线：教你用鼠标从起点点到终点

如果这个不算做教程的话，那这个游戏就是完美的无语言提示探索模型

作为一个极简主义解谜爱好者
我是奔着平板题来的，想解题解个爽
当然，很明显《见证者》相较于单纯的极简解谜游戏，要立体的多

也是我目前见到的，最复杂的从零开始的无语言信息搭桥，

抛去那些故意弄的哲学要素私活，
单是纯平板题我都想打给这个游戏满分
（毕竟纯解谜不能吸引太多人，还是要有点人文关怀）

吹哥花了7年的时间，把这座小岛打造成99%完美的游戏艺术品。
（虽然7年里有很大一部分时间写引擎）

那1%是晕3d劝退率太高了（泣）

以下涉及应该不正确（个人理解）剧透
请因为晕3d而已经放弃了
或者打完了的朋友看

你带着VR设备，进入了一个由哲学项目组设计好的小岛。

你忘记了在另一侧生活的一切，也忘记了是怎样来到这里；唯一你可以做的就是：探索这座小岛，希望能找到一些（被布置好的录音）线索，对着哲学的录音和人工设计的三个时代的痕迹，感受「领悟」，并尝试将这种领悟带回现实。
（虽然最后只捞得了对圆形（*我在实际生活中的体验为大圆头圆尾的，蝌蚪形状的）事物敏感度提升了N个等级的下场）

《见证者》还是一种冥想修行的方式（不二论禅宗），
你需要在拥有13个（10外围+小镇+山内+△门）区域和总计665道线（523平板划线+环境135+6+1道ED2平板（不计入存档））的开放世界中进行探索和解谜，并感悟认识世界的过程。

你，是一位聪明的玩家，这个游戏不愿浪费你的时间。
所以这个世界不存在无厘头的充数的料；各种谜题都会将新的想法添入整体。

每一个看似蹊跷的地方，每一个你凭借当前信息解决不了的问题，都可以在岛上找到答案。

这种蹊跷，包括但不限于：
只有环境音，没有通用的BGM
有些机关的运转速度很慢
有些题会有多解，有时每个解都有意义
船为什么要分12345档而不是单档
中间为什么有一片和解题没关系的开着荷花的池塘
挑战的倒数第二部分的路线和题位置
最终的挑战成果为什么放在了第4个位置，明明一共有6个
为什么要凑总计665道线（有一道ED2的不计入数据）（数字命理学）

所以，这是一个充满了想法和领悟的游戏。

It's the most pretentious game of all time.

If you can withstand that it's a very fun puzzle game.

晕……3……D……
慎入

I wish I could delete all memory of this game and play it again. Discovering all the little details and experience the depth slowly unfolding was truly amazing!
Many (more) years will go by before a game like this one will appear again.

NOTE: Some puzzles may be difficult/impossible for the hard of hearing or color-blind.

That being said, this is the king of all puzzle games. If you want a game that will throw hundreds of incredibly varied, deep, surprising, challenging puzzles at you for dozens of hours on end, you must buy this. I'm 32 hours in and I'm still excited to unravel the next few mysteries of the island. It helps that the game is gorgeous, so even when I'm stuck on a puzzle I can enjoy the scenery.

If you have a puzzle-loving friend, I highly recommend plugging in a second mouse and playing through together. A second perspective really helps with some of the harder puzzles, you will be able to play longer without getting puzzle-fatigued, and you can share in the excitement

Overall good, if somewhat tedious.

Some puzzles will not accept alternate solutions, which should work according to the rules applied. These are only a handful of cases, ands seem to be simple oversight, In many cases, there can be multiple solutions so long as the rules are applied correctly.

The puzzles themselves tend to be repetitious, but clever on the whole. The scenery is nice, however. The peaceful setting also helps set a good mood for puzzle solving.

The videos are obscure and fascinating. The game could do with more music.

I would say 7/10 overall. Solid recommendation to those who enjoy puzzle games and have plenty of free time. The ending is a bit ambiguous and leaves rather a lot to be desired in the closure department, but I feel this can be overlooked. The journey is really the point here, and the satisfaction of solving the puzzles is really sufficient, even if the grand puzzle of the game itself cannot be resolved.

买前：看大家说“画线解密500合一“，”单调无聊“，“被包装了华丽外表的手游“。Jonathan Blow的Braid是真神作啊，新游戏口碑就这样？50% off，试试吧，大不了吃灰

开始游戏加到处乱逛：嗯，好像就那样？？？

城堡：嗯。。。这游戏还挺有意思的嘛。。。

玻璃工厂，湿地，小镇果园blabla：有点难。。。

发现录音：嗯，哲学家。。

发现视频：嗯，都是哲学家。

竹林：这不很简。。等等，我还是去看攻略吧。哎，答案我怎么都看不懂啊。。唉，音盲。。

神庙：卡个视角这么爽？

树林：影子还能这么搞？？？

沙漠：我去，光还有这种操作？？？

温室：（脑子炸了）

山内：为什么我的套路每次都被。。

结局：（回味无穷）我擦这游戏厉害了！我要回去继续做！

发现黑柱谜题：（有个大佬告诉了一些我有趣的东西，我打开游戏，站在山顶上，看了看旁边的板子，往山下俯视，直觉驱使我。。）卧槽！！！！！！！！！！！！
卧槽，这堆石砖！卧槽，这条道路！卧槽，这片油漆！卧槽，这朵白云！卧槽，这根树枝！卧槽，这个洞窟！卧槽，这条缝隙！卧槽，这个倒影！卧槽，这个反光！
卧槽，连我出生的地方都。。
卧槽，居然尼玛还能有之前那些视频！？卧槽，这骚套路居然能成功逼我看完一小时的视频？！
卧槽，连运动也是其中的一部分！？
卧槽，我之前是瞎了么？
卧槽，连现实世界都。。。

行，行。。吹哥，就服你。。。

10/10

最后说点认真的：
好多人玩了没有几十分钟就直指这游戏为什么不做成2D的，真的，别写了，太肤浅了。。。
然后说说一笔画是否单调的问题，举个栗子，射击游戏的核心，无非就是移动光标到某个区域上然后点击，但是似乎并没有很多人指责这一点？当然我只是这么一说，这游戏究竟如何还得看大家自己

首先我看不见游戏的未来，但是我看到了游戏的无限可能
也见证了巅峰

try 'the looker' as well

最好玩的一笔画游戏，最傲慢的解谜游戏。
耻辱2的关卡设计师曾说过：“游戏设计不应该与玩家对抗”，而吹哥和玩家对抗的火花显然足够激烈。见证者的解密方式确实惊艳，不过当你被失败就黑屏的无意义机制，炫光照射的光污染，四处移动的操作面板，还有几乎遍地的“记忆”型谜题拿出手机拍屏时，希望你也能把它当作Jonathan Blow的个性。从堪堪十几的通关率来看，想称它是阳春白雪似乎不符，又更像是游戏界的“生活在树上”，用最华丽的辞藻堆砌成一篇文章，无视了所有引导、背景、交互的自洽，注定了它只能走上0分和满分的二极管，而我不可避免地点击二极管，一如既往把光点从左边划到右边。

In my own experience, the best way to experience this game is just to do it spoiler and guide free. I know it seems like it will take forever but if you get stuck on a single part either go to a different part of the map or just set the game down and come back the next day. When you beat the game, I can promise you, if you don't use any kinds of guides, you will thank yourself. The feeling of crunching through puzzle after puzzle and concept after concept with no real tutorial, and completeing all of them with a satisfying ending is amazing. Plus there are fun easter eggs to find, as well as audio logs that can be nice white noise to listen to while you do the puzzles. 10/10 stars

I am recommending this with a warning.
If you are looking for an easy puzzle game for a lazy Saturday afternoon like I was, step away.
This game sent me on a rollercoaster of liking it to hating it and back again.
Do I think it's worth the $50-60 price tag ? No.
Do I think this game might be in my top-100 games of all time? Yes.
Should this game have been published 20 years ago? Also Yes.
Talos Principle+Myst, but it's the same line puzzle 500 times over. It probably wasn't intended to be finished in 1 or 2 sittings, and it will hurt your brain. I'm writing this at 5am after the second sitting (13 hrs), having watched all multiple endings and bonuses. I have work in 3 hrs. I can't sleep.

Summary: The Witness is an unconventional game that everyone should play, but they won't.

I won't lie. It didn't take very long for me to feel frustrated and underwhelmed with this game. At first I wanted to give it a mixed/neutral score (ignoring the fact that Steam lacks the common sense to give us that feedback option). My general impression was that the ideas were creative, but the execution came up short.

One of the challenges that either the player or The Witness has to overcome (depending on your point of view) is that the rules aren't going to be explained. If your idea of a good puzzle game is knowing your objective, and just demonstrating what you know, then this game isn't for you. Or is it?

What I would argue is that The Witness was very deliberately designed to do something besides just be a game. The witness ISN'T about puzzle mechanics. It's about problem solving in general. It's about facilitating the change that takes place in your brain when you don't know; don't have a clue, but start asking questions; start testing ideas.

The Witness wants you to learn how to think for yourself. Not because your avatar has a backstory. Not because there's an achievement to unlock, or some time to kill, or even profit to be had in the business behind it. It just understands that thinking is very much the most fundamental part of being human. And maybe, fewer and fewer people are actually doing it (whether it be a side effect of technology, flaw in social and educational systems, or some other cause or influence).

Played correctly (without a walkthrough, video, backseat gamer, etc.), the Witness seeks to cultivate your desire to confront what you don't understand, to foster confidence in your inate ability to figure things out, and to instill passion for knowledge by appreciating your own progress.

The Witness is not a conventional game. Expect to be disappointed if that is the lens through which you try to judge it. I wish everyone had the open-mindedness and patience to play it. (And the ability, but that's another matter).

One of the best puzzle games I've ever played. Even ignoring the stuff that would count as a spoiler, the panel puzzles have far, far more depth than you'd think at first glance, and uncovering the rules for how they all work is a challenging but very rewarding experience. Plus the game is absolutely beautiful.

I have a notebook full of sketches and drawings I was using to help solve some of the harder puzzles, even went as far as to physically make some props for some of them. That is a sign of a great puzzle game.

Системные требования: большой мозг

highly recommended for those with no respect for themselves or their time, absolutely perfect design

Il parait qu'il y a des dodos sur cette île...

The Witness, sorti en 2016, est un jeu d'énigme créé par Jonathan Blow (le créateur de Braid) où l'on incarne une personne, seule sur une île remplie d'énigmes.


- Du contenu, et de qualité. Les énigmes sont nombreuses (plus de 500), variées et avec un seuil de difficulté élevé ! Le temps de jeu va varier en fonction de votre facilité à déchiffrer les énigmes. Je l'ai personnellement fait en 23h.
- Graphiquement magnifique. Les textures sont lisses, simples, avec des environnements variés.
- La qualité sonore est au rendez-vous (quand il y en a), avec une narration superbe (les différents enregistrements que l'on trouve), et des bruits environnementaux réussis.
- Comme je le disais, les énigmes sont très réussies. Elles sont variées, et il faudra dans certains cas utiliser l'environnement, dans d'autres respecter une simple logique, etc..., obligeant le joueur à toujours s'adapter. Empêchant une arrivée trop vite de l'ennui et de la répétitivité.


- Bien que le jeu soit très réussi, il n'est cependant pas amusant. C'est de la résolution d'énigmes pure. De plus, on est rapidement dépassé par ce qu'on doit faire, ce qui peut décourager le joueur, car aucun guide, aucun chemin précis, aucun but.
- Pas ou peu de bande-son.
- J'ai pas du tout compris la fin du jeu. En fait, je ne sais même pas s'il y a quelque chose à comprendre. Ce qui m'agace un peu. En effet, faire un background mystérieux, toussa toussa, sans avoir une fin digne de ce nom ou qui prête à réflexion, c'est dommage.


The Witness est un très bon jeu d'énigmes, mais qui est exclusivement recommandé aux joueurs acharnés, fan de ce genre de jeu. Pour les autres, passez votre chemin, car mis à part passer un mauvais moment, vous n'allez pas retenir grand chose de ce jeu.

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2020-06-14我终于达成了见证者的全成就。感觉我双休日效率是真的很高，之前的莱莎全成就，还把把之前玩了一半的见证者也通关并且全成就了。不得不说这个游戏是真的烧脑，感觉平时上班掉的头发双休日也得掉一点。游戏从头到尾都在做益智题。玩游戏之前建议准备好手机，纸笔之类的工具，必要的时候需要记录和打草稿。所以来给大家简单介绍下，顺便附带部分关于谜题的小提示（卡关的可以来参考一下）。

首先先来简单谈谈这个游戏，看评论区说对晕3D的玩家不太友好，我玩的时候没多大感觉，帧数啥的还是比较稳定的，可能是免疫了？再谈谈游戏机制，虽说是步行模拟器，但是解密方面从简单来说这个游戏就是个一笔画游戏，但是其实它不光有一笔画，除了一开始进去都是一笔画迷宫以外，后面都是多种解谜形式混合出现的套路。利用光线解谜都只是小儿科，连树叶、岩石、毫不起眼的树枝、动物叫声的变化等等，都成了解开谜题必不可缺少的要素。而且这些要素虽是解开谜题的关键，但游戏本身却没有给出任何明显提示(顺便说一句，游戏从始至终都是没有任何教程的，整张地图也可以随便瞎逛，游戏过程全靠玩家自己摸索)，只有一些很不起眼的暗示，粗心的玩家很容易将其忽略。但正是如此，玩家解开谜题获得的满足感也更加巨大。所以即使我通关了也可能还有好多谜题没有去解决，下面只是我个人的收集数，所以想要全收集还是挺困难的，因为还有很多环境要素（隐藏的谜题）。

这款游戏和跟我们平时做的习题集很像，总体概括就是（摘自评测区）：

1. 知识要点是固定的，你要做的是运用它们。

2. 题目设计是万变的，没有一模一样的煎熬。

3. 难题的本质是绕圈，你需要换个角度思考。

4. 解题的关键是理解，终极是看透出题思路。

对于游戏来说便是：

1. 你可以查到题目答案，但它只会让你下一题更难解。

2. 你可以阅读详细攻略，但它只会让你错过世界细节。

3. 你可以收看结局视频，但它只会让你好奇设计背景。

岛屿的全景图可以看得出各个区域还是被划分的很有特色的，每个区域都有各自不同的谜题解法，所以就提高了很多的趣味性。我粗略筛选了一下，挑几个有特色的的地方来讲讲。

注：前方涉及到游戏部分谜题提示，建议卡关之后再来看，第一次玩建议跳过这部分，直接到下方剧透完毕处。
1.对称岛，顾名思义，一切的谜题都和对称相关联，也有从同一出发点出现两条对称的线条，注意两边都要顾及到哦。还有些谜题是要求探索周围的环境来解决难题，有时候可能不知道如何处理，我给出的提示是：走向前看看，看起来会有什么变化。有时候，一个完全毫无意义的难题会随着向前或向后迈出一步而变得有意义，当您感到迷路时，稍微走动一下，改变相机的角度，改变观看面板的方式，这会很有帮助。

2.果园，我在这里给出的提示很简单，请尝试观察您周围的事物并尝试在面板上进行复制。在这个游戏的区域中的面板是带有多个分支的树，您可以环顾四周，发现那里有苹果树，将线画到苹果所在的分支上，或者是断枝之类的位置。

3.沙漠遗迹。我给出的提示是：注意到游戏的这个区域太阳有多强吗？这一切都与反射有关，利用太阳的优势，当您处于直角时，这些面板可以轻松解决，在面板上寻找太阳反射的地方并显示绘制线条。不过一旦进入地下室，太阳就不会如此对您有利，甚至更低，所以此时可以用作反射的是水。

4.雨林地带，面前只有一个面板，没有任何东西可以给您提供线索，是吗？然后我给出的提示就是：增加游戏声音，然后重试！当涉及到这个难题时，请注意鸟鸣的歌唱频率。不过当同时播放其他随机声音时，这并不那么简单，请注意好好区分。

5.城堡，我给出的建议是：这个区域要记录之前四个城堡迷宫的解决方法，将迷宫走过的路并将其复制到端板上，有时候您必须注意地板上的东西，同时可能需要增加音量等等。

6.温室，一开始面板看起来很简单，但是你可能会发现下一组拼图似乎是不合逻辑的，这些提示我给出的是：您看到的颜色不是真实的颜色，请尝试从另一个角度或通过其他角度查看。请记住，将两种颜色相加的结果可能会有所不同。除了拼图方块之外，这座色彩缤纷的房子内的所有物品都应注意不同颜色的门和灯，当您透过蓝色或黄色的门（或是两者）看时，看起来不合逻辑的拼图变得简单。

讲了很多区域的特色，再来讲讲几个可能遇到的难点。

1.首先是“消除器”，它的作用是与其他图标组合在一起时，可以纠正问题或在解决难题时引起冲突的事物，换句话说，它消除了这不是集合的一部分。而且要解决消除器难题，您必须使用网格中的所有消除器。

2.俄罗斯方块，要解决俄罗斯方块碎片的难题时，您必须使用线条画出屏幕上的碎片图标的形状，并使用形成相关碎片所需的相同数量的正方形，确保该碎片的符号是在您用线条形成的图形内。还有注意倾斜的俄罗斯方块是可以旋转的，蓝色的俄罗斯方块指的是可以消除的部分。

3.三角形，当在岛上漫步以解决“主要”难题时，可能会遇到地板上带有三角形图标的盘子。有意思的是在整个游戏过程中发现的面板就是这个的教程。因此您必须仅通过这些板块了解如何处理三角形。三角形的规则很简单，三角形的数量表示绘制的线可以接触三角形所在的正方形的次数，是不是恍然大悟了。

4.六芒星，要解决这类谜题，必须使用线通过连接两个相同颜色的星星来划定一个区域，必须在直线区域内形成成对的星星，星星不接受的是与该区域相同颜色的另一对星星。也就是说，如果您有2个橙色和2个白色星星，则可以将它们留在同一区域，但不是4个橙色。成对也可以由星形和正方形构成，但是两者必须具有相同的颜色。星星会忽略其他颜色的所有内容。

剧透部分解说完毕，谜题还是自己去解出来比较有意思，其实这部分更像是一个指南。
每解锁完一个区域就会触发一次激光，当激活数量达到一定值之后便可以去山顶解锁最终挑战了，当然看看沿途的风景还是相当不错的，还是要享受过程。

最后来总结下游玩之后的感谢（摘自评测区):作者用近乎偏执的方式地创造出了这么一个世界，制定出严苛的规则并去掉细枝末节，就是为了将本作打磨成完美的艺术品。这是一部关于学习和探索的指南。无论是题板谜题，还是隐藏要素，皆是为了让玩家学习，学习如何认知与感悟世界。我们将学会如何从世俗的纷繁中脱离而出，追寻造物之上的意志。世界的最终答案是什么？可能根本就没有什么答案。我们穷其一生的思考与探索，可能最终得到的也只是寥落的只言片语。我们了解了世界，描绘了世界，却无法改变世界。最终这个世界仍像最初的样子，保持着神秘，并且，维持着冷酷。微弱而短暂的温暖过后，人们便会想起寒冷才是这个世界的主基调。但，请永远不要放弃希望。

欣赏风景的同时，别忘了留意身边的事物

丰富的谜题，新鲜感层出不穷

谜题灵活多变

数十种独特方式的“滑动解锁”

令人惊叹的细节

画面风景不错

高自由度解谜游戏

这就是见证者

this is where i draw the line

我不会为一款只玩了1个小时左右的游戏写测评，所以，这不是一篇测评，而是一个警告。

这个游戏会造成玩家在游戏的时候出现呼吸不畅，伴随眩晕，恶心，有呕吐欲望等不适感。这种症状不光会出现在晕3D游戏人群中即便是在从来没有晕3D感觉的人也有几率出现以上不适的感觉。本人从不晕3D，但是游戏76分钟后出现该症状，经各方打听出现该症状的最短时间是在30分钟。请欲购此游戏的朋友慎重，这并不是一个玩笑。

经过咨询和体验，使用窗口模式游戏时，能有效地降低眩晕感。

这篇涉及大量游戏内容，涉及大量游戏内容，大量游戏内容！
如果还没有玩这个游戏想看一下入手建议的话，那么看到这篇的一半就可以了。如果是想要深入了解一下这个游戏并且已经有了一定进度的玩家，欢迎看完本篇测评。主要内容都在后面。
终于最后玩完了这个游戏，通过幽暗诡异的悬浮石阶，看着最后那个人醒来，不管它是比喻玩家，还是比喻开发者，都是一个词-exhausted！游戏中大量学以致用模式的谜题让人无法自拔，就像毒药，让你沉溺在寻找“彩蛋”、“谜题”、“秘密”、“真相”和“细节”的过程中。如果你是一个深度谜题探索玩家，这个游戏绝对是你不二的选择，游戏中的谜题表现无非就是“一笔画线板”，但画线的规则和游戏中作者想要表达的内容，完完全全是由玩家来自行探索的，游戏不会给任何提示。说实话，我是很喜欢这种风格的解谜游戏的，但我想对大众玩家来讲，这个游戏多少有些不友好了。
几乎所有玩家都给予好评的游戏画面问题就不多说了吧（有些玩家会3D晕眩），我想说的是有关音乐的问题。首先我要说的是，游戏中有一小小部分的过程是有音乐的！是有音乐的！当然，游戏中大部分是极其安静的，玩家只能听到自己的脚步声。但是，我觉得恰恰是这种安静给整个游戏的基调就定位在了一种神秘的感觉中，也许刚出了教学阶段的围墙建筑玩家没有这种感觉，刚走过海边的美丽小岛也是觉得游戏有些过于安静，但当玩家接着进行城堡的探索，树屋的寻觅，再到后面沉船的解谜，你会发现，整个游戏安静的有些恐怖了。尤其是在沉船听水滴声音的时候，伴随着巨大金属的恐怖回音，我竟然想到了泰坦尼克号的船舱（原谅我脑洞大）。再到后面从山顶下到山中间，再到山底，到地下，走过以第一人称视角的柱子迷宫，我感觉既神秘又兴奋，还有一丝恐惧，在拿到图纸进入开发者大厅时（我这样叫它），看到那个诡异又安静的悬浮石梯，我竟然停了下来，因为它真的过于安静了。尤其是伴随着那些很细节的音效，真的让人感觉整个游戏很神秘。所以说，没有音乐可能真的不是像有些玩家说的，作者经费不足等等原因，我觉得最有可能的原因就是作者刻意这么做的，抛去有些解谜特定安静的环境原因不说，作者很有可能就是想要营造这样一种诡异的气氛，有时候就是“无声胜有声”吧。
再来说一下游戏最大的优点，游戏的细节。一个全部由玩家来探索的游戏，细节就是最大的线索，它可能不是进行下一步流程的关键，但它也许能反应作者的一些想法，当然，它也有可能就是开发者的彩蛋，解谜游戏的乐趣不恰好是对这些东西的探寻吗。游戏中的细节太多了。

• 海边小岛的人鱼雕像，坐小船可以看到长发一直飘到小岛的入口处。
  
• 树屋处的黑树干，可以看出来一个类似巫婆一样的长发老太太拿了一个东西。
  
• 港湾边的tiny半岛，一个男石像半跪求那个“圣杯”，讽刺的是他的影子已经拿到了。
  
• 多彩沼泽边的一面石壁，从树屋那个角度看海面倒影，就像是一个佛像。

太多太多的细节了，散落各处的石像都在诉说着自己的故事。每个玩家都能从这些细节读出不同的故事来，再结合同样散落各处的录音，我想玩家已经从另一个方面接收到了作者想要表达的东西。没错，就是这个游戏最为神秘的地方，它在讲一个什么样的故事。
接下来就说一下这个最关键的，游戏被作者赋予的灵魂。
这个游戏的作者就不多说了，非常厉害的独立游戏开发者，这些独立游戏开发者往往有一个特点，就是他们最看不惯微软、育碧、索尼等这些游戏开发公司，他们不喜欢快餐游戏，更不喜欢那种以画面或音乐来打动玩家的“大作”。HALO这种游戏可能在一些独立开发者眼里就是“a piece of ♥♥♥♥”。他们喜欢的游戏是那种更有意义的，更能让玩家思考的游戏。或者是创意十足，在主流的游戏类型中都叫不上类型名的那种游戏。我觉得在这个游戏里，作者就是把自己对世界的一些思考融入了其中。
The Witness，它见证了什么，或者玩家又见证了什么。当游戏正常结束后，“我”坐在那个飞梯中，飞过一个个“我”曾经走过的地方，我似乎明白了，玩家就是那个witness。玩家自己探寻着“真理”，寻求着真相，最后又当玩家以为接近真相的时候，其实发现，“真理”根本不存在，我们得到的不过就是这样一个过程，而玩家恰好就是这个过程的见证者。“真理”是什么，在地下的一个录音里我们可以知道，那个女录音者在不知道自己开着录音的情况下说出了类似这样一句话-“他们是不可能找到真理的”。仔细琢磨这些录音，其实大多是围绕神学和科学展开的。但这些和作者有怎样的关系呢？
看到了第四个录像也就是最后一个拿到的录像，我似乎明白了作者的游戏“剧情”。视频中有这样一个故事我印象很深，关于莎士比亚的真实性的探讨。故事在这里不做探讨，重点是人们对于好奇的理解。故事中讲述在圣经的那页前数第46个词是shark，倒数第46个词是spear（有兴趣的玩家可以仔细听一下那段长达1个小时的讲说，那好像是一个游戏开发者大会的一个人的讲词）。这是巧合还是“神迹”？这就引出了作者对人们探索世界方法的疑惑，人们对未知的问题总是有两种看法，一种难以解释，于是便有了“上帝”，来帮助解释这些无法理解的问题。许许多多的问题便这样借上帝的名义来解释了，但是还有一部分问题，有些人想用更加理性的方法来处理，于是他们尝试用自然规律来解释这些问题，于是便有了科学。在这个岛上我们能通过录音和石像看到这两种的冲突和矛盾，小岛上追求圣杯的男子，广场中央“赞美太阳”的女子，还有带着科学仪器在山顶的探险队。个人觉得山顶那两个争夺箱子的人也许就是在说着科学和神学的冲突，一个人想一探究竟，一个人怕违背了“神”。
一共6个视频似乎都在说一些有关人生意思和问题思考方式的话题，视频中还说到了彩蛋这个词的由来，讲了人们为什么如此热衷于对彩蛋的探索。其实彩蛋不正是人们好奇心的体现，人们对这种未知神秘的探索，正像玩家对这个游戏探索一样，当玩家找到第七个图纸的时候，不也是一心好奇，想找出它的作用吗。人类就是这样在探索着这个世界，神也好，科学也好，都是对这个世界探索的一种方式而已吧。作者就是营造了这样一个世界，让玩家来对这个世界进行探索，进行思考，它的灵魂，就是这个探索世界的过程，每个玩家都是witness。

真理是什么，难道还重要吗

以上是个人对这个游戏体验的一些感悟，都是个人想法，欢迎一起讨论。
总而言之是很棒的一款游戏。希望玩家玩过之后不要像最后那个人一样，已然无法分清现实与梦境。也许对世界的探索就是要感性与理性的结合呢！
我提名了这款游戏！

The Witness is a first person exploration puzzle game that is highly remarkable for a variety of reasons, some of which sadly can't be discussed easily (or at all) without risking spoilers.

For those of you considering the game, please take this to heart and limit or (preferably) just abstain from looking up more info about the game. Many reviews contain spoilers at some level (including the top reviews)! The forums and community hub also do (even though there is a Spoiler subforum, there are still spoilers in the other sub-forums). I will try to keep this review as spoiler free as practical.

First and foremost, The Witness manages to evoke even in a seasoned gamer like me, the sense of wonder I felt when playing games like Myst for the first time.

That is, among other reasons, because the game is a gorgeous piece of virtual art. Most of us are no longer easily impressed by pretty, expensive, mass produced graphics. This is more than that.

While indeed technically excellent, the world (well, island) of The Witness is crafted in a way that feels something like walking around in a masterpiece painting (or series of paintings, as there is considerable environmental variety). Aside from the overall beauty, there are so very many wonderful details to admire. I don't think I have played any other first person 3D game that approaches this level of artistry.

Second, the gameplay, which consists primarily of exploration, puzzle solving, and a sort of scavenger hunting is surprisingly enjoyable.

The classic CD-ROM game Myst is perhaps the closest comparison and the biggest inspiration for this game, but The Witness is much more accessible, less frustrating, more beautiful, and, I think, more rewarding an experience.

It is a game of epiphanies, repeatedly producing quite nice feelings of accomplishment in ways that not many games do, even most puzzle games.

This is largely because the puzzle solving mechanics are never directly explained to you, but the world presents you with ample visual and symbolic clues to make your own inferences. This is the core design principle, and, to me, indeed a key selling point.

Based on preview videos I saw initially, I had significant reservations about the seemingly simplistic puzzle mechanic. Simple it is indeed, but it is presented in such clever, varied, often challenging ways that it never really felt tedious or overly repetitive to me (although, I am quite good at puzzles). And, yes, there is somewhat more to this than solving 2D puzzles on flat panels.

Going into more details about the mechanics would spoil the sense of discovery that is the highlight of the game, so I will not, but I will say that this game will exercise your mind in a wide variety of wonderful ways.

It's not an easy game. While getting to the "easy" ending can be done without much effort, the game holds substantial challenges for those that wish to take them on.

During my playthrough, I ended up using three sheets of graph paper and taking numerous private screenshots for future reference. It's that type of game - the type of game (almost) nobody has dared to make in decades.

It takes maybe a 10-20 hours to reach the easy ending, and another 10-20 to reach complete the second achievement. However, there is quite a bit more to do, and doing all of it, even with a guide, would take quite a lot longer.

So, to those of you wondering about the $40 price point, the game has plenty to offer to justify it.



I highly recommend The Witness to the right audiences. The trick is determining whether or not you are the right audience for the game.

Reasons you might not like The Witness:
* You have a sensory deficiency (colorblind or deaf) - see Sensory section below for more details
* You dislike puzzles.
* You dislike thinking.
* You want your game mechanics clearly explained to you rather than having to figure them out based on clues/cues.
* You need games to have a coherent, "traditional" story. What is the game about? If you really must know, it's about epistemology
* You would be overly uncomfortable exploring a mostly static world with only some environmental audio, but mostly no music.
* You want to be able to do everything in the game without help (note: help is not necessary for the achievements, though some may need it).
* You want to be able to do everything in the game in a reasonable amount of time (note: again, not a problem for the achievements)
(including this in spoiler tags so others do not inevitably point it out in comments)
* You can't stand being "lectured" on religion/science/philosophy/art/whatever. This isn't a required part of the game. If you don't like that sort of thing, you can ignore it, but if you do, you will be partially "missing the point"

There is a common complaint that, despite what I said, and despite the overall positive reception, that the core mechanic of the game (drawing a line) is too repetitive. I worried about this initially, but I after having played the game, I think it's fine and surprisingly well done, though perhaps not without some arguable flaws. I guess I have to mention that here because it's such a common complaint, but ultimately if this sounds like a concern to you, the only way to find out if it works for you or not without spoiling the game is to actually play the game for yourself.

Besides these warnings, I highly recommend it to anyone else.


The game is actually "optionally" DRM free. The Steam version can be run without Steam, if necessary (although mixing offline/online may cause problems).

Buying it at the Humble Store will give you a choice between DRM-free only or Steam key only..

The game looks nice on High settings, for which you would need to meet the moderately high recommended requirements. I haven't tried it in lower settings, but I've seen some people say that the game loses a lot when settings go lower, so the experience won't be as nice.

Is this game "indie"? I would say so. Here's a relevant quote from Jonathan Blow (from Reddit AMA):

"I am not disappointed with anything from the game. If we had shipped it early, I would have been -- I would have stories like you hear from most game developers, "well, we originally wanted to do X but we had to de-scope the game because it was obviously too ambitious", or, "we tried to do Y but we just didn't get it right and then we had to ship". No, that is not how we work here. We built an ambitious game and we made sure everything was good and then we shipped it. When you aren't being forced to ship by a publisher or by financial constraints, you can feel free to make the best thing that you can."


If you've already finished the game, or are for some silly reason resolved to never play it, then this is another review I'd recommend that discusses the nature of the game in a way that can't be done without spoilers:

http://www.gamesradar.com/eureka-moment-what-witness-story-really-about/


There are sections of the game where puzzles are sound and color based. If you have a sensory deficiency, you will not be able to finish those puzzles on your own. But, you could look up the solutions in a guide.

Specifically, the sound puzzles are: in the forest area where there are speakers attached to trees, etc, near the puzzles and for one puzzle in the shipwreck

The color puzzles are in the greenhouse area on the sea facing side of the mountain and a few also in the village area

The best way I've ever found of reminding myself how dumb I am.

Many puzzles require a kind of lateral thinking which is incredibly satisfying when you work out the correct approach and suddenly realise what seemed impossible is trivial. It's frequently frustrating and unforgiving, and if you're not good at mental spacial transformation tasks then it'll be much harder still, but the lack of hand-holding and incredible level of challenge serve to make it more satisfying.

Finding an especially clever solution or approach can actually make you *gasp*.

「我們有多久沒有好好觀察這個世界？我們是不是總依靠著別人給的解答，而忘記了思考的樂趣？」在一個充滿500多個千變萬化謎題的美麗安靜無人島嶼上，「 The Witness （見證者）」這款絕對不只是解謎的解謎遊戲，嘗試透過電子遊戲這種互動性強的第九藝術，讓玩家重新去思考上述的問題：遊戲過程將見證我們如何被自己矇蔽，又如何依靠自己打破成見，重新成為一個「思考者」。

「The Witness （見證者）」是經典，但可能是屬於邪典那一類的經典，是電影中史丹利庫伯力克的「 2001 太空漫遊」，安靜但叛逆，細細品嘗後會直指人心深處的某些東西。

因為它不同於一般解謎遊戲，你在「The Witness （見證者）」中要找的所有鑰匙也都早就已經在你的腦袋裡，那就是你的邏輯分析能力！

I cannot begin to describe just how saddened I am by "The Witness." I had been anticipating it for so long, but ultimately it's been an awful let-down.


The Witness delivered on its promise of beautiful visuals and challenging puzzles, but while it contains thoughtful (albeit "borrowed") philosophical content that's beautifully presented, ultimately the promise of a deep mystery to be uncovered was a bold-faced lie. The game had been hyped for years, and ended up so depressingly disappointing to me that In the end I could barely bring myself to finish it. It is a glut of repetitive, meaningless, storyless puzzle-solving in an otherwise visually compelling environment that would’ve had the exact same impact on me had it been on the iPhone with pixellated 8-bit graphics. It wasn’t a game; it was a task. And it wasn’t one I felt any satisfaction from completing.

The description on the store states the following:
"You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you. You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home."
Every word of that is a lie, designed to draw you into an ultimately banal and repetitive walking simulator peppered with puzzles.


I was anticipating playing The Witness literally for years, having followed the developer's blog from very early on. A rabid Myst series fan, I was chomping at the bit for another story-based puzzle game to sink my teeth into, especially when it was described as an island setting where you arrive without any understanding of why you're there. When it came out, I bought it instantly, literally purchasing a new gaming PC at the same time so I could experience it on modern hardware. (I was overdue for an upgrade anyway.)

The visuals are very pleasing to the eye in a bright and surrealistic way that walks a fine line between obviously unreal and bizarrely realistic. The lack of close-up shape and surface detail and overpowering color saturation mixed with believable reflections and lighting feel similar to the graphics of Team Fortress 2, oddly enough. Imagine if Aperture Science and a 5-star gardener with a degree in genetic engineering combined to create a manicured environment as an amusement park: Voila, you have the island from The Witness. It’s a wonderful environment to behold, and was clearly an exhaustive effort to create. There’s definitely a great deal of enjoyment to be had discovering the scope of the island and all its nooks and crannies.

The other area that the developers obviously spent a lot of time was the development of the puzzles themselves. Their logic is devious, challenging, and will require you to drag out a pencil and graph paper (or your chosen digital alternative.) There can be a high degree of enjoyment obtained from deciphering their cryptic composition, and the game does a very good job giving you just enough education on the rules to let you figure them out and reach that euphoric "eureka" moment. For a time it was wonderful, and at one point I even said to myself “If this could go on forever, that’d be great.” However, I was working off of the assumption that there would be a gradual revelation of the mystery of why I was there on this island, or at least some hints as to its purpose. As time went on, my heart sank deeper and deeper into despair as I realized that assumption was utterly and painfully wrong. It's clear they spent their efforts on the logic behind the puzzles and graphics engine, with no thought at all into building a reason for the player to actually _care_ about solving any of the hundreds of diabolical mazes strewn all around. I can’t say that I hated playing this game, because I only hated it after I realized that everything I was doing was pointless. Up until that point, I was loving it.

The only content which can possibly pass off as having “story elements" besides the unnerving statues strewn about the island are the live-action movies you can “unlock” by solving certain puzzles, all of which hail from a wide variety of sources and eras. Some are absolutely beautiful philosophical discussions on the nature of reality, human understanding, science, God, and cognition. Others are pure avant-garde art which can be thought-provoking, but ultimately only carry whatever meaning the viewer chooses to ascribe to them. Their most common feature, however, is that the game developers didn’t make a single one of them. They’re all from existing documentaries, interviews, and TED-like talks, and while I respect the developers’ inclusion choices, they took absolutely no effort to incorporate into the game. There is one exception of original content, but it's so banal and drawn-out with no visual component that I nearly threw my controller in anger when I realized after sitting and listening to it drone on for almost a full hour that it's only message was: "people like puzzles." The rest of the island is so devoid of meaningful story content that I found myself desperately trying to find and unlock all of the videos just to hear a human voice break the soul-crushing silence of the soundtrack-free environment. Indeed, the historical quotes and video excerpts are treats to someone who takes pleasure in philosophy and literature. However, if Jonathan Blow thought he could insert the words of great minds into his puzzle game to have them magically imbue it with deeper meaning, he's either deluded or just plain lazy.

This brings me to the thing which depresses me most: The Witness has no story, period. It's a beautiful venue with no party, no music and no people; a concept that actually has literal representation in the game at one point. After anticipating it for so long, the most powerful emotion I felt after completing The Witness was nothing short of betrayal. It felt like Jonathan Blow built it to lure in the kind of people who liked the games it was supposedly "inspired by," only to troll them with a game that itself has no more mystery than a book of sudoku puzzles. I felt like I’d been duped and lied to, and the “secret” ending doesn’t help one bit in changing my mind, nor was it in any way original. In fact, it made me even more angry, because it is one of the single oldest (and worst) cliché endings one can ever possibly use. You've probably guessed what it is just by me saying that...

In the end, The Witness has only one point: People like solving puzzles even when there’s no purpose to doing so. It literally even *says this aloud* during the most disappointing piece of unlocked content. If you’re the kind of person who just wants to use an expensive PC to do maze puzzles, The Witness is for you. Aside from that, it’s nothing more than a walking simulator set on a beautiful island that would serve as a great demo for the Oculus Rift. The remaining "meaningful" content can be much more easily acquired from the original authors, or YouTube.

I'm waiting for Obduction...

10/10 frustration guaranteed. Will bash your head against a wall and then cry for happiness immediately after. If you hate yourself play this game.

Я понял, что тупой. Если вы хотите так же - берите не задумываясь.

Предварительный отзыв.
Я наиграл всего два часа пока, но у меня так подгорело от ревьюшек в топе, что вот.
Например, прекрасная рецензия человека, наигравшего в два раза меньше моего, начинается со слов "В игре нет ни сюжета, ни персонажей, ни геймплея..."
Я не знаю, как нужно играть в игру, чтобы спи3дaнуть такую хуuню, но есть подозрения, что этот человек смотрит на мир жoпoй. Минимализм, созерцательность, хотя бы капелька внимания, anyone? Для него, наверное, и Braid был игрой про спасение принцессы. И с этим мудaком, судя по оценкам, солидарны сотни людей, что делает меня и Джонатана Блоу очень грустными.
Далее человек по часу игры уверенно заявляет, что все головоломки "однообразны и примитивны". Ну это совсем уже. Головоломки очень крутые. Одинаковые только с виду, но совершенно разные по сути. Правила меняются из раза в раз подобно тому, как это было в "Braid". Главное, что тут никто игроку ничего не объясняет, и разгадка, как правило, начинается с понимания того, что от игрока требуется. И если первые паззлы, как это и должно быть, достаточно просты и существуют для ознакомления с механикой, то уже ко второму часу появляются такие, в которые можно залипнуть на несколько минут спокойно. И разгадка приносит удовольствие, потому что имеет смысл. От некоторых местных геймплейных находок я натурально подпрыгивал на стуле от восторга.
В общем, к чему я это всё - не слушайте никого, попробуйте лучше сами. Два часа достаточно для того, чтобы понять, что это за игра и подходит ли она вам, так что возможность рефанднуть всегда остаётся. Я лично этого делать не собираюсь. И не только потому, что игры Джонатана Блоу должны продаваться. И не только потому, что автор игры - Творец с большой буквы, влюблённый в своё дело. И не только потому, что его "Braid" стал одной из двух (!) игр в моей жизни, которые заставили меня реветь как сyчкy. А потому, что "Witness", может быть, и не та игра, которую я ждал, но она очень хороша там, где она хороша и может принести действительно уникальный опыт.
Ну и ещё - да, похоже на Талос. И геймдизайнерскими решениями, и, отчасти, тематикой (Демиург где-то рядом). И, несмотря на то, что Talos мне в целом понравился больше, Блоу удалось то, что не удалось Croteam и то, чего мне очень не хватало в Талосе при всей прелести тамошнего сюжета, который пока что кажется гораздо круче, чем в Witness. Здесь нарратив очень минималистичен и пока кажется больше претенциозным, чем интересным (хотя я очень надеюсь, что в конце игры будет видна бОльшая картина и blah-blah-blah, но может быть и пшик, так что о сюжете пока судить не берусь) , но он местами очень сильно связан с геймплеем и вот это то, что я действительно редко вижу даже в подобных играх.
Желаю вам приятной игры.

Comincerei subito col dire che probabilmente scriverò un libro, per cui qualora non voleste sorbirvi il mio pensiero completo potete scendere in fondo dove metterò un piccolo riassunto oltre al voto. Purtroppo questo non è un gioco semplice: da giocare, da comprendere e anche da recensire. Mi dispiace molto per lo sviluppatore che ha visto la sua creazione in cima alle classifiche dei giochi più scaricati illegalmente, perché si vede che il lavoro e la passione dietro al titolo ci sono e costa comunque la metà di un titolo AAA.

"L'uomo può fare qualunque cosa se istruito"
Questo è il concetto che The Witness cerca di portare avanti durante tutta la durata della sua avventura. Una volta mostrati i tasti da premere per interagire ♥♥♥ il mondo di gioco, non ci verrà spiegato più nulla riguardo al gameplay; dovremo superare le prove proposte solo grazie alla nostra logica. Sarà come tornare bambini; tornare al tempo in cui si giocava ♥♥♥ le forme e bisognava inserire quel cubo di plastica nella cavità quadrangolare, per poi passare a forme più complesse. Allo stesso modo si presenteranno i puzzle qui; l'obiettivo sarà quello di riuscire a tracciare una linea da un punto a un altro, senza mai tornare sui propri passi. Lo scopo è semplice, quasi banale, ma è il modo per raggiungerlo la parte divertente.
Gli oltre 500 rompicapo si presenteranno ♥♥♥ difficoltà sempre crescenti e passeremo dal risolvere semplici labirinti a giochi ben più complessi, ♥♥♥ regole che andranno ad aggiungersi ♥♥♥ la scoperta delle nuove zone dell'isola dove si svolgerà la storia. Dovremo destreggiarci tra giochi visivi, di prospettiva, di luci e ombre, di colori, tra giochi di forme, tetraedri, e perfino tra giochi uditivi. Ognuna delle 11 principali zone da esplorare avrà la sua tipologia di enigma ♥♥♥ le rispettive regole, le quali verranno prima insegnate attraverso giochi più semplici e mirati propriamente a far capire il ragionamento da compiere; starà quindi a noi apprenderle per poter procedere a risolvere i livelli più difficili.
Purtroppo, o per fortuna, l'avventura non è lineare, e non si avranno da subito le conoscenze necessarie a risolvere il rompicapo più vicino, questo ci costringerà a esplorare l'isola alla ricerca della conoscenza che ci serve.

L'isola è meravigliosa, coloratissima e ogni parte di essa è caratterizzata al meglio. Attraverseremo foreste, deserti, castelli, paludi e molto altro ancora. Non sarà neanche raro interrompere un po' il ritmo di gioco per andare a esplorare quel sentiero che prima era sfuggito ai nostri occhi, per poi perdersi e ritrovarsi a risolvere enigmi in tutt'altra regione. Oltre ai rompicapo principali ce ne sono altri nascosti, può trattarsi di veri quadri da risolvere o di puzzle ambientali, i quali salteranno subito ai nostri occhi non appena ne avremo scoperto uno e cambieranno totalmente il modo in cui vedremo il mondo che ci circonda. In aggiunta ai giochi nascosti, troveremo anche delle piccole chiavette celanti dei file audio; ce ne sono davvero molte, ma minuscole e non facili da vedere le quali ci detteranno alcuni insegnamenti o ci daranno alcune spiegazioni riguardo la storia.

La trama è infatti il vero enigma di The Witness, un punto interrogativo che come il resto non ci verrà spiegato esplicitamente, e anzi, una volta raggiunto uno qualunque dei vari finali ci lascerà ♥♥♥ ancora più domande!
Impersoneremo quest'uomo risvegliatosi sull'isola, il quale non avrà uno scopo preciso, se non presumibilmente, quello di fuggire da essa. Ci saranno altre persone oltre a noi, ma non parleremo mai ♥♥♥ nessuno, ancora una volta nessuna spiegazione; il tutto viene lasciato al nostro libero pensiero. Ed è qui che voglio soffermarmi.

Fin'ora ho parlato superficialmente del gioco, dati oggettivi che danno vita a un buon puzzle-game, ma a cui manca qualcosa. Per quale motivo dovremmo giocarci?
Come ho detto la storia non è chiara, a una prima occhiata si tratta semplicemente di enigmi da risolvere, senza alcun nesso tra loro, sembrando quasi un gioco arcade. Eppure man mano che si va avanti, dopo aver accantonato le conoscenze del gameplay, si scoprono insegnamenti di carattere scientifico e filosofico. La frase che ho citato all'inizio è tratta da una di queste dottrine. Una volta presa dimestichezza ♥♥♥ le meccaniche dei puzzle si riusciranno a risolvere dei quadri nascosti che daranno accesso a degli schemi, questi a loro volta andranno memorizzati e inseriti all'interno di un teatro. Un luogo nascosto sottoterra, nel quale sarà possibile arrivare a visionare sei video. Ognuno di questi sarà di carattere filosofico, insegnamenti neutri a metà tra scienza e fede; lezioni di vita e non solo, che ci faranno chiedere "Perché?"
Perché in un gioco sono presenti ore di filmati, i quali apparentemente, nulla c'entrano ♥♥♥ la storia principale. Eppure una volta visionati, non si guarderà più quest'isola nello stesso modo, l'intero ritmo col quale ci muoveremo cambierà, ci soffermeremo su particolari che prima ci sfuggivano, o forse non eravamo proprio in grado di vedere. Tutto cambierà a seconda della sensibilità del giocatore e probabilmente è proprio per questo che il nostro alter ego non avrà una propria personalità, tutto ciò che potremo vedere di noi stessi è la nostra ombra, sarà un modo dello sviluppatore per farci entrare, anche solo in parte, nel mondo che ha creato.

Questo gioco è solo apparenza, un percorso interiore che punterà a migliorare non solo le nostre capacità logiche, ma anche il nostro modo di vedere ciò che ci circonda.

Il tutto sarà accompagnato da un comparto audio minimalista; poche le musiche, saranno i suoni della natura circostante a essere enfatizzati e ci permetteranno di toccare ancora di più l'isola dove ci muoveremo. Oltre a essere l'unico mezzo per risolvere diversi rompicapo.

Come ho detto all'inizio non è un gioco semplice da capire, fermandosi a un aspetto puramente fisico e superficiale: ci troviamo di fronte a un ottimo puzzle-game, ricco di contenuti e che offrirà una buona sfida anche alle menti più preparate (sarà difficile raggiungere una conclusione senza mai sbirciare tra le soluzioni) e se saremo dotati di un buon hardware potremo vedere e sentire l'isola prendere vita intorno a noi. Ma se al di là di questo, vogliamo esplorare ogni angolo del titolo, anche concettuale, dovremo prepararci a compiere un viaggio attraverso un sogno, forse senza nessuna destinazione, dal quale non sarà semplice uscire.
Sotto molti aspetti può ricordare The Talos Principle della Croteam, ma ♥♥♥ una storia più celata.


Voto 9.3

+ Aspetto Tecnico
+ Tantissimi puzzle e contenuti nascosti
+ Difficoltà crescente ed enigmi mai banali

- Non coinvolgerà tutti, in questo caso ci si annoierà presto
- Poche opzioni grafiche, anche se ben ottimizzato
- Solo 2 achievement su Steam

超喜欢这个游戏的 但是每次只能玩半个小时
因为我晕3D，这游戏超晕der

尽你的全力自己玩， 人生没有攻略 ，看了攻略就好比刚出生就老死了。
无论遇到多少艰难险阻，请不要放弃。 【游戏是非线性的，有的谜题相对独立（比如沙漠遗迹）随时可以尝试攻略，有的难关（比如小镇和采石场）先跳过，学习了对应的知识留到最后再来挑战也不迟。】
无数次彷徨，无数次试错会逐步打开这个新世界。
注重细节，换个角度，改变思维方式，一定能发现全新的道路。
当你点亮一道光的时候，就仿佛与作者思维相通，你会见证到游戏最本源的快乐。

7月6日，点亮2个（双轨和树林），慢慢来，尽量不看攻略自己玩通关。
7月7日，点亮了湿地、花房，不看攻略用自己的力量解谜超级爽，成就感难以言喻。
点亮了沙漠遗迹的光，地下3层一片昏暗，第三个谜题找了半天不知道去哪里找线索，不得已看了攻略才发现 就是在正后方往下看 ，捅破那层窗户纸其实没有多难，还是要有一个好的心态啊，急躁了脑子就停止工作了，尴尬。
7月8日，点亮了树屋和神庙，通关7道光的结局结局的路上有某些地点对应的插图，用游戏内容破解玩法才是正确的打开方式；终点之前右边第三个圆柱太难了，不得已看了攻略，囧
7月9日，点亮了城堡
7月10日，崩崩崩更新了雷律 ，咕一天
7月11日，点亮了采石场和丛林，只剩下小镇了。
7月12日，7月6日初见时完全摸不着头脑的小镇，在拥有所有情报、知识、经验之后就好像庖丁解牛一般顺利通关了。11道光打开山顶的全新道路，超级难的彩色谜题我独立攻克了，开心！留声机虽然难，但是每次都有进步，反复尝试之后运气好过了。全成就、6个视频都收集到了。（特别喜欢46的那个演讲）虽然游戏还有其他没有探索的秘密，但是总体上告一段落了。

本作给了我20小时左右的美妙体验，从初入的摸不着头脑，到处碰壁只能随便参观，到最后连续不断攻克一个又一个难关，带给我难以言喻的正能量。本作充斥着作者的奇思妙想和深邃思考，就像一面镜子，给了我审视自身的机会：

人间正道是沧桑，所有你经历过的磨难都会变成你的力量。天行健，君子自强不息。

为学日益（为了成长，学习尽可能多的知识）为道日损（知道了知识，就是要排除错误答案和多余损耗，找到效率最高的方法）损之又损，以至于无为（用最低的损耗、最高的效率解决问题，技近于道）无为而无不为（无为并不是什么都不做，什么都不做只是在等死，无为就是最低的代价达到最高的效率）

成功就是目标学：
短期目标就是当前的一个谜题，有可能很简单，也有可能很困难，完成之后，它会给你通往成功的线索（发光的电缆）；
聚沙成塔，积少成多，完成中期目标就是专精一项技艺，给你立身之本，并且点亮一道光，照亮人生的前路；
排除万难，克服诱惑、杂音和各种干扰，带着心中的憧憬不断追逐成功，结合健康、经验、知识、财富、人脉、权力、毅力等多种要素登上人生巅峰，取得世俗意义的成功闻名于世界（七道光结局）；
世俗的成功有迹可循，超越世俗的伟大无法可依（隐藏的地下洞穴中，电缆不见了）。在长期目标完成之后仍不懈追求、不懈努力，抛弃唾手可得的享受，永远不停止成长。穿入前人未踏的窄门，拥抱孤独和寂寞，肆意挥霍人生最宝贵不可再生的财富——时间去不断试错，尝试全新的可能性，开拓未知的道路。从个人的成就上升到开拓全人类的选择权，从站在巨人的肩膀上变成巨人本身，永远追求超越，生平可能寂寞奋斗，死后方能青史留名，成就伟大。

天之道，利而不害，圣人之道，为而不争。作者强调的是思考奋斗的过程，是为；而不是结果，也就是不争（独立思考自己过关超有成就感，看了攻略抄答案毫无意义）。通关表面上毫无收获，其实最大的收获在于忘掉游戏表面内容之后剩下来的东西——崇高的精神力量。对于人类历史而言，个人的成功仿佛星海一粟，不值一提。只有能耐住寂寞终生攀登高峰，不断点亮人类进步之光不懈追求的圣人，才能创造出令人敬畏的伟大成就，引领人类进步的道路。我们既是历史的见证者，也是历史的创造者。

文以载道，游戏也能载道。游戏作为一种新兴艺术，希望我在有生之年能玩到真正传世的伟大游戏。感谢作者带给我的美妙体验，感谢b站up主33不是山山的推荐，感谢已经病逝的vgtime编辑老赵的攻略（虽然没怎么用上过）。奇妙的缘分让我们相遇，谢谢观看这篇评测的你。

I will say that I didn't know much about The Witness before playing, and I did this somewhat intentionally. It did something I have never seen done in a game in that it's almost anti-linear. I guess you could describe that as open-world, but even most of the open-world games I've played had a clear path you were supposed to take (especially those that don't give you access to the entire map from the beginning). The Witness silently encourages you to explore your surroundings. I would look around my immediate area and complete line puzzles until I would get to one I coldn't solve in a reasonable amount of time. Once here, I would walk away and find a new area to work on. The Witness is interesting in that you almost were required to do this, as some areas are unfinishable until you have learned certain puzzle mechanics from other areas.

Since I didn't have any prior knowledge on The Witness, I was definitely disappointed to learn that this game is 95% solving line/grid puzzles. If that isn't what you are into then I do not recommend this game at all. As I progressed through the various types of line puzzles, I thought they were cleverly designed and made in a way so that each type felt new in a way. This kept me from getting too bored. What I did not appreciate was the difficulty. After finishing the 'tutorial' area for a new puzzle type, I would feel a sense of accomplishment that I figured out something new. Then I would face the inevitable "oh wait, maybe my initial assumptions about these puzzles were wrong" feeling, and I would go back and figure out my mistake. Once I got past that though, I was frequently met with the same frustration. I would have a line puzzle in front of me, I would know how to go about solving it, but I just couldn't find the right path to do so. It's similar to how I feel while playing a lot of point and click adventures. I have a platform thats too tall to climb up to, I have a rope, now how do I proceed?!

The Witness is absolutely beautiful, and it upsets me that there is no badge for this game. I would have loved to see the backgrounds that could have been made. Every different 'puzzle area' had it's own look and feel to it, and I loved the beginning of the game when I was simply exploring everything.

There is basically no story in this game at all, and anyone who says otherwise is lying. You can make up a story in your head, but what this game presents to you is too vague to give you anything concrete. This is my main problem with The Witness. Nothing about it felt fun. I would enjoy the lovely colors around me, but eventually I'd have to trudge around to find out where the puzzles were. After solving a puzzle, I'd feel satisfied but then the next one would be waiting for me and that satisfication quickly disappeared. I'd find audio recordings where the voices would just read a quote from a noteworthy person from history and some artwork drawn by who knows.

I marched on despite all this. I did the majority of the puzzles without much help, and I got to the mountain. Once I got there though, all shame went out the window. I just wanted to get to the end of the game, and once again the game throws me more line puzzles. And for what? Is this some kind of challenge to see if I was paying attention to the hundreds of other puzzles I solved before? Am I supposed to struggle through them and eventually feel smart and good about myself that I did it? I don't find that rewarding. I will say that I'm glad I didn't waste the time going through the mountain puzzles given what the ending was like.

The Witness is engaging, and that's why I played for as long as I did. However, it's not entertaining or fun. I won't think back and say to myself, "playing through that was so great" or "I can't wait to play that again in 2 years". That is my opinion. I can't give this game a thumbs down though. I want people to play this game because I think it's the kind you'll either love or hate, which means discussions about it will be interesting.

There are no jump scares, although the whole time playing I felt like something was watching me. Kind of creepy.

Наверное, лучшая игра-головоломка, в которую я играл. Очень хорошо заставляет работать голову, после четырёх часов чувствуешь себя как после рабочего дня.
Переборите себя и не смотрите советы или прохождения, моменты "ага" - самое замечательное, что тут есть. Механика способствует самостоятельному прохождению - загадки можно временно пропускать и возвращаться к ним позднее.
Музыка и внешний вид тоже на уровне, такое внимание к деталям редко встречается.

Отдельное спасибо за достижения: их всего два, и оба действительно оправдывают своё название.

Эту игру я уважаю как одного из своих самых достойных противников. Наша дуэль запомнилась мне надолго и я все еще в поисках чего-то подобного. The Witness до сих пор частенько снится мне в кошмарах, но каждый раз я просыпаюсь с улыбкой. Несмотря ни на что, я смог покорить этот игровой мир и до сих пор уголек того триумфа горит у меня в сердце.

Мы просыпаемся на неизвестном острове и не помним как тут очутились. Мы не знаем своего имени и кто мы такие. У нас нет задач и целей. Перед нами большой и странный мир со множеством замков и дверей. Может мы в коме или и вовсе умерли, но если мы можем двигаться и думать, значит не все потеряно. В нашем распоряжении целая вечность и ни единой души вокруг.

The Witness самая настоящая игра-исследование, где нет места пощаде. Тебя кинули в бурлящую реку и с интересом наблюдают выплывешь ты или нет. Но этот мир не испытывает к тебе злобы или ненависти. Вокруг безмятежные летние пейзажи, на небе светит солнце, а внизу у скал шумит океан. Ты не ощущаешь себя в сложной игре-головоломке, тебе кажется что ты просто вышел погулять. На западе острова уже наступила осень и листья окрасились в медный цвет, на востоке цветет и шумит лето, множество душистых растений направили свои цветки к солнцу и активно впитывают теплые лучи. На севере острова идет зима, там выпал снег, а воздух обжигает горло при вдыхании. Юг представляет собой красивейшее морское побережье, где кругом растут пальмы, а море лижет ботинки, когда ты приближаешься к полосе прибоя слишком близко. Кажется будто комната наполняется морским воздухом, а душу переполняет какая-то детская радость о том, что впереди беззаботная юность. Поля, леса, болота и городская местность - The Witness реализовала различные пейзажи, сделав окружение насыщенным деталями и приковывающим взгляд. Яркая и цветастая визуальная составляющая побуждает активно изучать этот мир. В конце концов ты не знаешь за какой из дверей окажется выход.

Несмотря на обилие различных головоломок (на странице в стиме указана цифра в 500 штук), игра поделена на определенные зоны, где загадки решаются методом аналогии. Я бы сказал что у каждой зоны свой собственный язык. В каждом таком секторе головоломки располагаются по возрастанию и по мере продвижения они будут постепенно усложняться. Они все заточены под решение специального типа головоломок, где нам необходимо при помощи линий выполнять определенные условия. В каждой зоне они разные и нам придется самим догадываться какая стратегия тут была применена.

Все таки я не могу перестать восхищаться некоторыми решениями разработчиков. Несмотря на общую сложность игры, все головоломки тут до боли логичны. Их решение всегда у нас под носом и нужно потратить определенное время, чтобы об этом догадаться. Иногда какие-то неприметные объекты образуют узоры, которые видны только с высоты птичьего полета, иногда решение кроется в строении веток деревьев, а иногда и вовсе нужно посмотреть на солнечные лучи под определенным углом. Каждая головоломка проверяет наш уровень логики и умение подстраиваться под любую ситуацию. Но зато каждая решенная загадка особенно ярко отдается триумфом, который в виде адреналина стучит в висках.

The Witness стал для меня самый ярким игровым опытом в области головоломок. Хоть геймплей и оказался изнуряющим, но он надолго остался в моей памяти. Каждое лето я возвращаюсь в это загадочное место, чтобы вновь проверить свои логические навыки и насладиться завораживающими пейзажами. Этот остров всегда рад меня видеть и ждет моего возвращения.

You SHOULD play this game if you want...
...a difficult task to struggle with, and eventually triumph over
...to exercise your patience and your ability to quickly learn random things
...to look at pretty trees and beaches while you listen to sexy voices talk about philosophy

You SHOULD NOT play this game if you want...
...to "have fun" (this game is more "rewarding" and "interesting" than it is "fun")
...to feel smart (this game makes you feel super dumb. I've seen multiple people rage quit.)
...to get to the end (the puzzles etc. are the game. If you're looking for something else, play a different game.)

На мой вкус - очень красивая, яркая, потрясающе играющая с перспективой.
Решение головоломки, её механика всегда одно и тоже, но условия задачи - очень вариативны.
И никто не объяснит того, как именно нужно отгадать следующую. Начнётся с простого, закончится очень сложным. Всё сконцентрировано на восприятнии созданного мира. Искать отгадки (ключи к решению) - в освещении, цвете, движении, звуках, символах.
Лёгкое ощущение того, что игрок - это программа, которую нужно обучить для решения более сложной задачи.
Я слишком давно играл в мист для того, чтобы иметь возможность провести какую-то аналогию с ним, но ощущение от процесса отдалённо похожее.
Пожалуйста, не играйте по гайдам, всё возможно, всё решается, нужно лишь всмотреться или вслушаться.

А ещё, коммьюнити содержит много иллюстраций, которые заставят улыбнуться или понимающе покачать головой, глядя на них. И я наверняка сохраню исписанную тетрадку в клеточку, которая прошла со мной всю игру =)

Я определённо вернусь к witness, ведь не весь остров мною ещё разгадан.

my favorite part was when he witnessed everything

不久之后，甚至就在我们的有生之年，会有那么一个游戏设计，如同闪电一般照耀我们的文化。
它很好辨识。
它会是慷慨的，因充满旺盛的创造力而令人眼花缭乱。
学者们会花上数十年，甚至数个世纪来对它进行分析。
它会是美妙的。
它会是让人颤栗的。
它令人充满敬畏。
——Brian Moriarty《The Secret of Psalm 46》

Ну что же, похоже, я-таки созрела для обзора этой, как минимум, неоднозначной игры. В процессе прохождения мое мнение на ее счет менялось не единожды - среди самых популярных топиков можно выделить: «ЭТО ЩЕДЕВРЪ!» (Светлаков.jpg), «Я НЕНАВИЖУ ЭТУ ИГРУ, ЗА ТО, ЧТО Я ТУПАЯ» и «ЕЩЕ ОДИН ПАЗЛ, И Я ОТГРЫЗУ СЕБЕ РУКУ». В общем, определиться со своим отношением к игре было сложно, но то, что она теперь занимает особое место в моем «видеоигровом мировоззрении» - факт. Конечно, половина, если не больше, всей составляющей игры – это высококачественная пища для зараженных СПГС, но то, как тебя вовлекают в этот поиск, крайне занимательно. В игре нет никаких конкретных объяснений – что, как и куда делать, что происходит и какого черта ты забыл на этом острове, при этом ты постепенно понимаешь и видишь в игре все больше и больше, как будто она состоит из нескольких слоев, которые игра ненавязчиво открывает тебе, постепенно становясь все глубже (во всех смыслах ;). То, что по началу кажется плоским, если не раздражающим в своем однообразии, открывается совершенно с другой стороны, обретает новый смысл. Все на острове связано в единую органичную систему, все здесь на своем месте, нужно лишь найти верный ракурс ;) Этакий целый остров с двойным дном.
Но куда же без пресловутой ложки дегтя в этот медовый остров) Как говорится - в нашей силе наша слабость. Так и в этой игре, минусы кроятся в сАмом цимесе. Недосказанность и недоведенность контуров является наиболее интересным и в тоже время самым раздражающим (не считая того самого ЧЕЛЕНДЖА, конечно) аспектом игры. Игра заманивает сладким ощущением твоей интеллектуальной состоятельности (о, это чувство, когда ты нашел решение к очередной заковыристой загадке), сочной, разнообразной и живописной картинкой, а самое главное – желанием собрать все кусочки этой картины вместе. Навсегда застывшие каменные фигуры, аудиозаписи, фильмы и множество других деталей, которые в изобилии тебе предоставляет игра, как бэ намекают – истина где-то рядом, еще чуть-чуть, еще один мозгодробительный пазл, еще одна дверь и ты схватишь ее за хвост. Но никакого хвоста нет. Точнее может и есть, но тебе нужно очертить его самому. Не будет никаких финальных объяснений, конкретных рассказов почему и зачем, все это остается на твое усмотрение. Может, я слишком посредственно мыслю или уделила недостаточное внимание деталям, но меня такой расклад оставил неудовлетворенной, а мне не нравится быть неудовлетворенной.

Предупреждения:
-После прохождения, есть риск начать искать "натуральные" линии в реальном мире и слегка поехать крышей на этой почве. Впрочем, эта тема раскрыта и в концовке самой игры.
-THE CHALLENGE может повергнуть Вас в пучину беспросветной ненависти к себе и скромному содержимому своей черепной коробки.

令人惊艳的游戏，但对于我这种智障来说是真鸡儿难

无字巨著

Where Portal has humor and The Talos Principe has philisophy, The Witness has exploration.

If you are DEAF, there will be impossible puzzles.

※極一部、わずかにネタバレあり。
未クリア、プレイ時間8時間時点での感想です。

オープンワールドパズルゲーム。
Portalのようにアクションが求められるわけではなく、世界の所々にパネルが立っていてそこにパズルがあるという形式です。
パズルの形式はスタートからゴールまでを線でつなぐという単純なもの。
ここに「特定のルートを通ってゴールする」や「マスの色ごとに線で切り分ける」といった追加ルールが道中で加えられていきます。
基本的にこれらのルールはゲーム中一切説明されません。
各エリアで新ルールが追加される際に導入編のような簡単なパズルはありますが、あくまでプレイヤーが閃くかどうかが鍵になっています。ここら辺、正直ゲームデザイン的にPortal等に比べると上手くは無いので、詰まる人は詰まります。
海外Wiki等に攻略法はほとんど載っているので、どうしても詰まったらカンニングしてしまうのも手です。

また、パズルを解いたりすることで断片的な映像等が観られます。
これらは知識についての考察だったり神への独白だったり非常に難解な内容で、この世界に何があったのかを暗示しているのかもしれないし、していないかもしれません。雰囲気は良いけどよくわからないです。
日本語対応しており翻訳の質も高いので、これらを聞くこと自体は容易です。

• 幻想的な世界
  桜が咲いていると思えばきれいな海があり、町には石化した人々が居たり謎の遺跡があったり、色々な景色を見ることができます。
  
• じっくりと考えられるパズル
  パズルの難易度は高めですが、腰を据えて考えるのが好きな人にはオススメ。方眼紙とペンがあると捗ります。

• 動きが遅い
  プレイヤーの移動速度にしてもオブジェクトの動作にしても全ての動きが非常にゆっくりです。
  特に「パズルを解いてオブジェクトを作動させて移動」を繰り返す事が多く、これらの動作に毎回1分程待たされるので結構イライラします。
  
• シビアな判定
  風景の中にパズルが隠れている、というものがあるのですが、これらの判定がかなりシビアです。立ち位置を調整に調整を重ねやっとパズルとして認識されるような感じ。視点をずらすとパズルの答えが見えるものもありますが、これらも相当分かりづらいです。

難易度は高めで、答えを見ても結局解き方が分からなかったものも多々あります。
プレイ時間における移動時間、待機時間の割合も多めですが、じっくり時間をかけて、頭を使って考えるのが好きな人にはオススメ。
アクションパズルではないので、難解な雰囲気等は似ていますがPortalをイメージしない方がいいです。あくまで立ち止まってゆっくり解くパズル。
最終問題だけはランダムでググっても答えは出ないそうなので、真にパズル好きのためのゲームです。
ルールの推理や世界観の考察、隠れパズル探し等、頭を使う地味な作業が好き、かつそれをやる時間のある人は是非。

【既然你没事找事地购买了】
【那我就大发慈悲地告诉你】
【为了弥补假期没有作业的空虚】
【为了守护自己掉线已久的智商】
【贯彻套路的隐藏谜题】
【烧脑无比的画线游戏】
【黑曜石】
【留声机】
【这是对智力与耐心的考验】
【523！523个谜题在等待着你】
【就是这样喵】

i witnessed 16 murders between 1974 and 1992

大学的时候经朋友推荐玩到了本作作者Jonathan blow的前作Braid，因为这款游戏，我改变了认识世界的方式。
十几年后的2019，我通过‘机核’的电台又开始关注Jonathan blow的作品和他对于美的哲学，兴奋到热泪盈眶，甚至相信他跟汉尼拔一样追求极致的美，也立刻就入了The Witness。
本作不是一款适合所有人的游戏，也不应该看攻略游玩，在Jonathan blow的作品里我已知的谜题中，‘蒙’只有极小的概率揭开谜题，所有精妙的谜题都有且只有一个解释，每一个解释都是和作者的一次对话，这是一种高级的愉悦。

很多艺术家都没有得到其当代社会的理解，在我们都将化作尘埃之前，未来已经写下了你的名字。
向Jonathan blow致敬。

During day to day life, I notice patterns. My brain does it automatically. I will pick out random, trivial details about the world and give them special meaning, when they really have no meaning at all. And so, naturally, I noticed patterns while playing the Witness. I quickly discovered that these patterns, patterns that would have been meaningless in the real world, meant everything in the world of the Witness.

I did not buy this game expecting validation, but playing it allowed me to explore a world that felt like it was built for people like me, and I am thankful for that.

Positive:

• Beautiful graphics
  
• A lot of puzzles
  
• Puzzles within puzzles (environment puzzels)
  
• You can freely choose where to go and start with the puzzles
  
• Lot of mysteries you start to wonder about

Negative:

• The ending was kinda disappointing.. it didn't really explain stuff you desperately wanted to know

The Witness is not for everyone. If you're looking for a plot, answers to the many questions the world begs, or any kind of payoff really, this game will disappoint you tremendously. However, The Witness is not about the destination, but the journey. The beautifully crafted island is a delight to explore; it's devoid of life and full of mystery, and can be progressed through in any order the player feels. The basic goal of the game is simple: solve line- and symbol- based logic puzzles. That's it. Their rules are taught only by doing them in ever increasing complexity. Once you finish a section of the island, typically with a themed rule set or aesthetic, several more distinct regions await with yet more puzzles to solve, until one by one they're completed. Of course, the end is not the end. There are myriad hidden secrets, environmental puzzles, illusions, and unrelated sights to be discovered beyond just line puzzles. The Witness is a wholly immersive experience if you give it a chance to envelop you, and I highly recommend doing just that. I played this game for nearly three days straight after I bought it and I've been unable to get it out of my head since then.

Chega, eu desisto de The Witness! Nunca mais vou jogar esse negócio!

Já é a terceira vez que eu digo isso, mas agora eu juro que é pra valer!

...

A quem eu estou tentando enganar? The Witness é excelente. De tempos em tempos, os puzzles me deixam louco de raiva, eu desinstalo o jogo, mas depois acabo reinstalando e jogando por mais alguns dias... até ficar irritado de novo. É amor isso, não é?

O que eu mais gosto em The Witness é que ele vai te educando. Se você topa com um puzzle complexo com elementos novos, dê uma busca em outras áreas que você invariavelmente vai achar um puzzle bem mais simples com os mesmos elementos. Assim você aprende o básico sobre como manipular aqueles elementos e pode voltar para resolver o puzzle mais complexo.

O jogo é super relaxante em alguns momentos, tem até umas mensagens meio zen que fazem você pensar. Mas depois de uns dias jogando, eu começo a ficar irritado com a minha própria ignorância e preciso de umas semanas de sossego, he he!

I want to recommend this game for its puzzles and its use of meta-puzzles. The interface is exceptionally clean and elegant, one of the best I've seen in any game. The landscape is carefully designed and rewards exploration. If you enjoy solving puzzles, you will not regret buying this game.

As a game, this is a great success, in my opinion. And as a piece of software, too.

However, there are some serious drawbacks, in my opinion. The first and worst is, while I can intellectually appreciate the aesthetic principles underlying the art style, it is not to my taste. I found the color palette, in particular, distracting and annoying, rather than soothing. And there is a sterility and artificiality to the whole environment that made me weary.

The second problem is, thankfully, an optional experience. And I am grateful to the developers that they made it optional. There are interactive memory cards scattered around the environment. When you click on one, a famous quotation is read/recited. I recognized many of the quotes from my university days and my own personal reading over the last 60ish years. The quotations are not unconnected to their surroundings. But I find them tedious and pretentious. After the first few, I stopped clicking on them all together.

The other problem I have with the quotations is that they are all taken out of context. Context is extremely important in all areas of communication., but especially written communication. Taken out of context, quotations become sound bites that are carefully chosen to support the chooser's ideas and beliefs. I would encourage any player to explore the quotes you most enjoy outside the context of this game.

The Witness ist ein Spiel, auf das ich bei dem Durchforsten meiner Spielevorschlagsliste beim Summersale 2017 gestoßen bin. Es ist ein Rätsel-Spiel, das auf den ersten Eindruck als Spieler von Portal oder Talos Principle mein Interesse geweckt hat.

Die Rätsel in diesem Spiel sind hauptsächlich auf Bildschirmen zu lösen, indem man einen Pfad durch ein Gitter zieht, bei dem es unterschiedliche Beschränkungen gibt. Diese Beschränkungen können sehr unterschiedlicher Natur sein. So gibt es Rätsel bei denen Symbole direkt auf den Bildschirmen angezeigt werden und bestimmte, zum Teil sehr schwer zu erahnende, Auswirkungen haben die man bei dem Ziehen seines Pfades von einem Start- zu einem Zielpunkt berücksichtigen muss. Andererseits gibt es Rätsel bei denen die Umgebung des Rätsels Lösung offenbaren soll. Dies funktioniert bei einigen Rätseln durchaus gut und macht Lust auf mehr. An anderen wiederum steht man einfach dumm da, wenn man den "Hint" nicht auf anhieb erkennt. Das animiert leider zu sehr langweiligem und eintönigem Ausprobieren von verschiedenen möglichen Lösungen bei deren Fehlschlag es oft keinen Anhaltspunkt darauf gibt was denn nun der Fehler war. Das sehe ich auch als einen der Hauptkritikpunkte an dem Spiel. Während Trial and Error meiner Meinung nach nicht automatisch schlecht sein soll, so ist es doch ohne fehlende Rückmeldung irgendwann einfach nur müßig und bereitet ordentlich Frust.
Manchmal hilft es zwar sich von einem Rätsel zu entfernen, sein Glück wo anders zu probieren und einen Anhaltspunkt für das vorher abgebrochene Rätsel zu finden. Oftmals lassen sich die Mechaniken der unterschiedlichen Rätselgruppen jedoch nicht übertragen und man bleibt stecken.

Atmosphärisch besticht das Spiel durch seine durchaus schick anzusehende Comic-Grafik, in welcher die unterschiedlichen Biome liebevoll in Szene gesetzt werden. Leider bezieht sich das rein auf die visuelle Ebene, da dieses Spiel keine passende Hintergrundmusik bietet, was der Immersion durchaus zuträglich gewesen wäre. Wie bei vielen Dingen im Leben muss man auch hier sagen, dass eine ausschließlich optisch herausragende Oberfläche irgendwann auch nicht über die Monotonie der inneren Werte hinwegtäuschen kann.

Zur Story kann ich nichts sagen, da ich in der Zeit die ich das Spiel gespielt habe nichts in diese Richtung gefunden habe. Aber ich würde auch nicht vorraussetzen, dass Spiele dieser Art unbedingt eine Story brauchen. Durchgespielt habe ich das Spiel nicht, weshalb da aber durchaus noch etwas kommen könnte. Es gibt versteckte Audiologs die irgendwelche philosophischen Ideen rüberbringen sollen, meiner Meinung nach aber sehr künstlich (nicht künstlerisch sondern Gegenteil von natürlich) eingebracht wirken. Andere Spiele wie Talos Principle oder Turing Test bringen ihre philosophischen Anteile da viel besser und natürlicher rüber und wirken nicht wie nachträglich wild in der Spielwelt verteilt.

Für Die-Hard-Rätselfans bestimmt einen Blick wert. Jene auf die das nicht zutrifft sollten lieber zu handfesteren Spielen greifen wie Antichamber, Portal, Talos Principle oder Turing Test.

Unironically one of my favourite games of all time, like all time top 3. Idk why I haven't written a review yet since I've loved it since 2016.

I understand this game isn't for everyone, unfortunately, but for those who like a beautiful environment, adventure, hidden aspects/secrets, and AppStore esk puzzles like Cardinal Chains or Flow Free, this game is absolutely for you.

I realise I'm almost insulting the game by calling the puzzles AppStore esk but they're not, they're amazing. Go buy this game.

If there is anything axiomatic about game design (and perhaps design in general), it's that a well-designed piece is deliberate, each of its elements added for a reason and serving a function.

Unfortunately, even this simple rule is broken all too often in the current gaming scene: artists add flashy things because they look pretty and cool; writers create stories that don't necessarily fit gameplay well or aren't needed at all; designers use traditional elements and mechanics without giving them much thought. Obviously, there are exceptions to these sad trends, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a reasonably complex game where nothing is arbitrary.

The Witness is such a game. More than that: it actually goes beyond simply being deliberate. Every element in the game, be it art, sound, animation, etc, doesn't only serve a purpose—it usually has several functions. As the game's designer Jonathan Blow so astutely (if unkindly) put it,

"In fiction writing, there is this concept that you want every sentence to do more than one thing: you want to describe the setting and set the mood and introduce the character. You want to say what happened and show how a character feels about it and foreshadow a later consequence.

For some reason game designers never got this memo."

And he doesn't only criticize. He delivers too.

The Witness is a puzzle game that has you walk a visually stunning island with several separate areas, each having a bunch of puzzles, secrets, and thought-provoking vistas. What they don't have is any verbal tutorials. Everything you need to learn, including the most obscure puzzle rules, is learned through actually doing it.

Sounds simple enough, but the result is mind-blowing. Figuring out each rule feels like an achievement. The game knows it full well: your reward for being smart is often more puzzles (because no superficial reward can compare to the chance to figure out more stuff). The puzzles are very different too, requiring unexpected approaches and thinking outside the box. Going into further detail would be spoiling the game; let's just say it's very consistent in its theme, so everything you see is there for a reason.

Everything.

(When grasping at straws and trying to find a flaw in The Witness's design, I half-jokingly thought that the only thing that seemed random was that we could see the protagonist's shadow for no apparent reason—having no plot, the game doesn't have to show us that the main character is human at all, so why add the shadow? Well, sure enough—as soon as I thought this, the shadow was used in a puzzle.)

This is a rare and precious thing to say, but I honestly feel that The Witness enriched me. It made me smarter. It tested and massaged my cognitive abilities in all the right ways; even the audio logs scattered across the island (one of the more "flavourful" and less ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ elements of the game) were genuinely interesting, with smart people talking of smart things in compelling ways.

So if you're a puzzle lover, play this game. If you're in doubt, play this game. If you're a teacher or designer, play this game. Actually, if you're none of those things, I honestly feel like it would do you good to play The Witness anyway—for educational purposes, if nothing else; it's an incredible study of non-verbal learning, learning in general, and the role of patterns in human cognition. (You obviously won't do it, but, y'know, keep this in mind in case you ever come across it for free or something.)

It's just that good.

If you like first person puzzlers like Portal or Talos Principle, you will love The Witness. All the puzzles revolve around seemingly simple objective. Draw a line from one point to another. First puzzles are no-brainers, but soon enough new game mechanics and obstacles are introduced and will start teasing your brain. Eventually you realize that the whole interaction with the world, including opening doors and using various devices, is based solely on this single type of action and that there are puzzles everywhere, even hidden in the plain sight and disguised as part of the world environment.

Thanks to the technological marvels of Unreal Engine 4, the controls are smooth and the graphic is stunningly beautiful. The island, where the whole The Witness takes place, is divided to several breathtaking environmental themes, all of which are drawn in vivid pastel colors. With NVIDIA Ansel built into the game, you can even take a screenshot of the scenery in ridiculously high definition and have it printed as your new wallpaper for your living room. If you happen to have VR headset, there is also a possibility to run the game with parameter "-vr" and enjoy the scenery in 360°, although the VR is not (yet?) fully supported and some features and puzzles may not work as expected.

I was really surprised how much I got drawn into the colorful and detailed world of The Witness and I can wholeheartedly recommend the game to anybody who likes to look at beautiful landscapes while putting their wits to the test. Ultimately, there's just one thing about The Witness which I don't understand - How the hell did I miss this when it got released 2 years ago?

刚开始玩，一笔画还用解吗，玩了一段时间后，这一笔画有解吗？
实在消耗脑细胞，考验对世界的观察和联系前后上下文的能力。
与算法题相比或许难度没那么大，但是出题人巧妙地逻辑设计是共通的，也是我同样佩服的。
令人舒畅的画面设计，用心的玩法设计，也许它不是神作，不适合所有人，但它一定是一款优秀的艺术作品。

I am torn. I have been in front of my screen for twenty minutes, unsure of what to choose, but still feeling the need to write a review for this game.
If you only care about gameplay, then go for it. Buy The Witness, spend tens of hours on it. It is a lovingly crafted gem with elegant, clever and tough-as-nails puzzles set in an engaging and beautiful world.
But.
I have finished the game and feel immensely frustrated by it. I won’t spoil anything about it, but while its thesis is solid, its narration was, in my opinion, horrendous. The team wanted me to be immersed and revel in deep thoughts. Instead, I felt as if I was taken hostage by the game tooting its own horn.
As The Witness introduces its mysteries before its thesis, it does, in my opinion, a poor job telling the player what kind of game he’ll be experiencing. In my case, I felt let down. Ultimately, I couldn’t help but feel ‘scammed’ by the narration, which kept increasing my frustration towards the game.
And while figuring out the puzzles was rewarding, finishing the game… wasn’t. I know that this can be justified in a number of ways, but ultimately, it didn’t matter for me. The experience felt like an empty mechanical contraption of reason – empty, passionless and meaningless, alas. While the game wanted to convey hope, awe and beauty, I felt the exact opposite, crushed by its extreme pragmatism. I couldn’t wait to get it over with, to get back to the real world. What a shame.
I do hope that people get to enjoy this game, that they get to play it and love it. As a puzzle game, it’s certainly a masterpiece. But my overall experience of The Witness makes it impossible for me to recommend it, unfortunately.

Edit: I forgot to write down something very important: if you're hard of hearing, epileptic, colourblind or subject to motion-sickness, please be advised that you either won't be able to complete the game or that the experience will be miserable for you.

The Witness ist eines der schönsten und besten Rätselspiele die ich kenne. Die Grafik ist phantastisch (hab mit reshade sfx etwas Photorealismus in die Farben gebracht) und der Grafikstil ist ein Kunstwerk für sich. Die Spielwelt, in diesem Fall die Insel ist unglaublich toll und wunderschön designt. Man sieht wirklich auf jedem Quadratmeter die Liebe und Mühe, die in dieses Spiel gesteckt wurde. Zum gesamten Ratseldesign kann ich noch kein Fazit abgeben, da ich noch am Anfang bin und einander sehr ähnliche Rätsel zu lösen habe, die mir aber super gefallen und mitunter sehr herausfordernd sind. Nach ca. 2 Stunden Spielzeit bin ich jedenfalls mehr als begeistert und bin froh, daß meine Wahl, die ich mir zwischen Tomb Raider und The Witness stellte, auf dieses Spiel fiel!:-) Meiner Meinung nach ist dieses Spiel jeden Cent seines hohen Preises Wert und ich glaube, ich werde noch etliche Stunden auf dieser wunderschönen geheimnisvollen Insel verbringen. Und jetzt wieder ab in den Urlaub für Augen und Seele, und Arbeit für den Geist.:-)

Nachtrag: Nach einer weiteren guten Spielzeit kann ich sagen, das Spiel haut mich einfach um. Grafisch wie auch rätseltechnisch. Die Rätsel, die diese unglaublich komplexe Spielwelt mit der Zeit freigibt, sind weitaus durchdachter als es beim bloßen Hinschauen den Eindruck macht. Man darf wirklich nichts unbesehen lassen, es offenbart sich immer wieder etwas neues und zum Lösen vieler Rätsel ist es ratsam, sein Umfeld und auch die Umwelt gut zu betrachten. Gerne werden Vergleiche zu Talos gezogen, wozu ich sagen kann: Wärend bei Talos die Komplexität der Rätsel rein mechanischer Natur ist und die Schwierigkeit sich über die Größe der einzelnen Bereiche ergibt, ist bei The Witness absolute Logik gefragt. Auch wenn hier manche Rätsel schnell machbar sind, heißt das lange nicht, dass man das Prinzip verstanden hat, welches diese Lösung überhaupt ermöglichte. Jedes Rätsel hat eine feste Logik in sich, und die gilt es zu erkennen. Ohne das Erkennen des Prinzips wird man es im Laufe des Spieles verdammt schwer haben, weiterzukommen. Hat man es dann begriffen, ist der AHA-Effekt entsprechend groß. Und von diesen Aha-effekten gibt es eine Menge. Von der Rätseltiefe und der Komplexität ist The Witness einem Talos meiner Meinung nach überlegen. Dass mir auch der Grafikstil und die umwerfend schöne Spielwelt besser gefallen, ist Geschmackssache. The Witness erfordert eine Menge ausdauer und (smile) innere Ruhe, um all das zu erkunden, zu entdecken und zu genießen, was dieses Spiel zu bieten hat. Es ist wirklich weitaus mehr, als der erste Blick verrät. Für mich ist dieses Spiel ein wahres Meisterwerk, und wer sich drauf einlässt, wird mit einem der schönsten Spielerlebnisse belohnt.

This game is an absolute masterpiece in every aspect imaginable. I mean, wow, what a game. I am totally in love with it. I played countless games, but very rarely was I that fascinated from the very beginning and the amazing thing is it just keeps getting better and better. If you've enjoyed games like Myst, Riven and so on you gotta play this game. The Witness takes it to a whole nother level. The puzzles - and there are tons of them - can be a bit challenging at times, but it always feels so rewarding once you've solved them. And the extremely bright and vibrant colours add a lot to the overall positive and uplifting feeling you'll experience by enjoying this game. A clear recommendation to everyone who likes to have a good time. 10/10

The majority of negative reviews are from people who are salty because the puzzles aren't easy. As long as you are the kind of person who takes a step back to test your assumptions and experiment with different ideas or strategies when you get stuck, instead of giving up and aimlessly bashing your head against the wall without thinking, you WILL be able to complete this game.

Yes, even if you are deaf, or colorblind (probably), you can beat the game. However, you won't be able to 100% the game on your own without audio. You also might not be able to 100% it on your own if you have certain types of colorblindness. It depends what type of colorblindness, and how severe.

You also don't need pen and paper, but it really helps, and I highly recommend it. As with any puzzle game, take breaks and don't play too long on an empty stomach. You can do it!

Ok, let's get the main things out of the way:

-this is a puzzle game in which after solving a puzzle you get rewarded only with access to more puzzles and the sense of accomplishment
-there's no story to speak of
-there's no gameplay to speak of apart from puzzle solving and exploration, which only helps you find more puzzles and take kickass screenshots

So yes, it all depends on the puzzle design. And this is where it surprised the living bees out of me, because in spite of all that's written above this game turned out to be very fun and addictive.

The secret is, obviously, in the puzzles. They're quirky. They're inobvious. They're varied. They require you to pay attention to your surroundings and sometimes to think creatively. They're not too hard, at least those that you need to solve to get the base ending, but they make you feel smart, and make you feel like you've achieved something by solving them. But yes, there're much harder ones in the game too, they're just optional.

Remember the first Portal? Remember those puzzles that seem unsolvable, but then you think about them for a couple of minutes and arrive at a solution? Well, the Witness basically embodies it.

This is pretty much controlled creativity, and that is what makes this game so addictive. A typical puzzle in the Witness is like this: you see a panel with the puzzle, you think, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, this is so hard and/or impossible to solve, I'm gonna quit the game now. After five minutes you go back and attempt to solve it. You realize that it wouldn't actually be all that hard, there's a pretty straightforward way to solve it, but, oh no! O cruel heavens! It's blocked. It forces you to think of the alternatives. You try something that is bound to fail once, twice, and then you get an idea. You try to realize it, and on the first or the second try you most likely solve the puzzle. Hooray, you clever you. Now go and repeat it with the next one - and this is important! - not really a harder one.

The difficulty of the puzzles is pretty much universal. There're really simple puzzles, sure, but they're there to teach you the rules. Nobody explains you the rules in a human language. You figure them out yourself, by solving puzzles. This is nonverbal communication Jonathan Blow is so fond of. and this makes the game very accessible and very interesting. Whatever language you speak, it's mostly irrelevant, you'll still be able to finish the game. You'll miss on some philosophical quotes, but for me they didn't add all that much to the experience. And you'll learn a new language, a language of a line going through mazes.

The puzzles are divided into logical and enviromental, and you'll have to figure out yourself which are which. There're several zones with different kinds of puzzles, and within those zones the puzzles usually go from easy to slightly not easy, in fact not easy at all, in fact, they are hard as ah nevermind, solved it. Also, the puzzles are very local: if you know the rules behind each symbol, you'll be able to just go ahead and solve everything the location has to offer on the spot. But knowledge is often not the case, so you have to go somewhere else and find some puzzles you can actually solve - most often the tutorials for the symbols - and then return and say, yah! It's still not easy at all, but at least I know how to approach it now. Unless those were the enviromental puzzles, and you had to find something relevant in your surroundings. In which case the puzzles are still as mysterious as an emerald doughnut.

So this is the Witness, a game where you're rewarded for solving puzzles with feeling clever, and this is somehow enough. If you're able to enjoy originality and quirkiness, and are not too demanding about the presence of the plot, please, do play this game. It's basically like believing in six impossible things before breakfast. Except all six start at the big circle and go through a maze the right way while not crossing themselves.

P.S. Interpreting colours correctly is a big part of the game, so if you're colourblind, do safely ignore it. There're also puzzles based on sounds, but they're optional for the base ending, though encountering them may be frustrating.

沒有文字瀑布要閱讀，沒有其他生物要防範或交涉;
只有自己，及開發者不知磕了什麼才設計出來的各式創意。

這遊戲其實有給教學關卡，也有很明顯的問題，不過就是要從圓點到線的那一端，
超級仁慈的設計。

這遊戲有夠多的線索，只是要知道哪條是真正的要花心血下去。
問題在於規則是要努力去嘗試出來。

在遊玩過程中彷彿聽到開發者喃喃自語:
為什麼一定要設計出指標來?
為什麼一定要逼玩家選擇出制式答案?
為什麼一定要有地圖? 想讓玩家迷路不行嗎? 想S死玩家不行嗎?
為什麼2D解謎一定要2D? 為什麼3D解謎一定要3D ?
為什麼要把規則什麼的跟暴露狂一樣通通秀出來?

千辛萬苦跋涉後的終於成就，
你知道你的渺小，但同時也學會克服沒想過的狀況；
耐心觀察嘗試必有所獲。

很美麗的一款解謎神作。

推薦給:
1.不怕失敗的人
2.不會3D暈的人
3.喜歡解謎的人
4.沒有色盲的人
5.喜歡動腦的人



我有做一個Controller Companion工作坊項目給The Witness

The Witness Controller Eye 

Un article du Workshop pour Controller Companion

Par : orcia

for The Witness http://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/ X = LMB ( A button) Y = RMB ( B button ) RT, RB = F12 = take pic RS movement = mouse movement X = LMB Y = RMB -------------------- 1.

歡迎訂閱

有一位大哲人叫康德，他解答了三个问题：“我能知道什么”、“我应当做什么”、“我可以希望什么”，但他终其一生也无法回答“人是什么”。
另一位哲人叫海德格尔，他在《荷尔德林诗释》里写，“人是什么，人是此在（人生）的见证者。”

这款游戏很难，难到我经常告诉自己要把它通关。
对不起，我不知道该在这里说什么，所以我一直引用一堆别人的话。我没办法说我对着屏幕流过多少次泪，太矫情了。
xbox上玩得比较多。

Эту игру порекомендовали мне как продолжателя Myst, по жанру которой я сильно соскучилась - когда-то был бум Myst-подобных игр, но давно прошёл, и не то что бы во время бумов жанра выходит так уж много по-настоящему пробивных игр. Суть Myst заключается в том, что игрок оказывается на обширной заброшенной локации, которая живёт (точнее, жила) по своим законам, но от этой жизни остались одни только загадочные машины. В отличие от обычных квестов на головоломки, правила решения головоломок в жанре Myst не даются. Игрок должен через наблюдательность, исследование местности и смекалку сообразить, как управляются машины, для чего и как ему добиться цели (обычно - попасть в точку выхода).

Поначалу The Witness кажется представителем другого жанра, ещё более старого и забытого - разновидности квестов, где мир и сюжет являются только способом навигации между головоломками, каждая из которых - вещь в себе. Первые головоломки так и устроены, и разве что связующие их провода, тянущиеся по земле, деревьям и стенам, намекают на то, что загадки являются частью общей системы. Но потом оказывается, что советчики меня не обманули.

Все головоломки являются вариациями на тему лабиринта: нужно провести линию из исходной точки в конечную. Однако у каждой панели свои правила, обозначенные символами. Например, клетки с чёрными квадратами должны быть разграничены от клеток с белыми квадратами, иначе головоломка не сложится. Некоторые панели имеют особую "физику" - например, одновременно с проводимой линией проводится и зеркальная ей, и пересекаться они не должны. Как и положено по Мисту, смысл всех обозначений и типов головоломок не раскрывается сразу. Обычно нужно побродить по окрестностям и найти подсказку - например, серию обучающих панелей (где решений мало, и перебором можно заключить о том, как именно значат обозначения) или предмет, наводящий на мысли. Следует заметить, что кроме складывания головоломок игрок ничего делать не может: ни брать предметы, ни открывать двери, ни двигать блоки - разве что может послушать разбросанные вокруг диктофоны. Всё остальное управляется панелями с загадками.

И в точности в традиции Myst, заброшенная локация обширна и живописна и даже является островом. Есть и город на деревьях, и затонувший корабль... Графика яркая, и хотя в ней есть элементы low-poly, это не закос под Nintendo 64 или Playstation 1. Это исключительно эстетическое решение, и я могу его только похвалить.

Вообще в игре всё на месте, в том числе продуманный путь игрока. Игре можно доверять: если какая-то головоломка непонятна, то либо подсказку к ней (или к этому типу панелей) ещё надо найти, и пока следует заняться другой частью острова, либо просто внимательней осмотреться. Нет скачков сложности или нерешаемых головоломок, за которыми придётся лезть в прохождение (я подсмотрела только одну, на дополнительную концовку, потому что звуковые головоломки - не мой конёк). Я бы сказала, что проработка, продуманность, да и длина игры (я прошла пока на 70%, а наиграла уже честных 22 часа) тянут на класс А, а не "палёный самиздат".

Рекомендую любителям головоломных игр от первого лица.

不久之后，甚至就在我们的有生之年，会有那么一个游戏设计，如同闪电一般照耀我们的文化。它极易辨识，它有着泉涌般慷慨，有着肆意妄为的发明气魄。学者们毕其一生，甚至数个世纪来对它探索和痴迷。它会是美妙的，它会是令人战栗的，它，令人充满敬畏。
——《诗篇46的秘密》

提醒一下想要入手的玩家，最好一次玩完，不要卸载，不然等你想再回来玩到时候就忘记原先那些符号是什么意思了。

Любителям находить пасхалки и открывать закономерности (порой очень остроумные) поиграть стоит.
А вот любителям стрелялок и остросюжетного экшена ловить тут совершенно нечего - заснёте после 20-30 пазлов.
На мой взгляд, игра призвана доставить эстетическое удовольствие и прокачать гибкость мышления. С чем она справилась на все 100%.

Fascynuje mnie umiejętność niektórych twórców gier, którzy potrafią obudować prostą mechanikę w taki sposób, że powstaje niezwykłe dzieło. Jednym z takich magików jest Jonathan Blow, który zadziwił świat grą Braid w 2008. Przyszło nam czekać niemal osiem lat na kolejną grę. Pytanie czy i tym razem mamy do czynienia z przebłyskiem geniuszu.

Blow oddaje nam do eksploracji wyspę, podzieloną na szereg instalacji, w obrębie których mamy do rozwiązania zestaw labiryntów. Przy czym labirynt bardziej przypomina układ ulic w nowym Jorku, niż zagadkę z gazetki Scooby Doo. Gdzie jest zatem trudność? Trudność polega na dodatkowej mechanice, która jest inna w każdej instalacji. Czasami będą to kropki, które musimy zebrać wyznaczając ścieżkę w labiryncie, innym razem będą to kształty, które nasza ścieżka musi przybrać. Labirynty stają się coraz trudniejsza a dodatkowo trzeba przygotować się na to, że w pewnym momencie będzie trzeba „wyjść z pudełka” i pomyśleć nieszablonowo. Chwila, gdy uda nam się rozgryźć dostarcza ogromnej satysfakcji. Idealnie wpleciony „fiero moment”, o którym pisała Jane McGonigal w książce Reality is Broken.

Oprawa audiowizualna zachwyca. Cel-shadingowa grafika, ambientalna muzyka i skąpane w promieniach słońca otoczenie nadają całości onirycznego klimatu.

U mnie The Witness ląduje w pudełku z napisem Zen. Mogą uruchomić ją w wolnej chwili i poszwendać się po wyspie. Może przy okazji odkryje jakieś ciekawe miejsce albo rozwiążę kilka łamigłówek. Nie potrzebuję wgryzać się w historię, bo jej jako takiej nie ma. Nie muszę też przypominać sobie obłożenia przycisków czy klawiszologii. I pewnie te aspekty spowodowały, że gra spotkała się z mieszaną reakcją. W dodatku gra pozbawiona jest wszechobecnych dziś elementów feedbacku. Nie ma samouczków, podpowiedzi czy kropek na mapie – wszystko musimy rozgryźć sami.

Podsumowując, w moim prywatnym rankingu jest to mocne 8 na 10. Gra, którą pewnie nigdy nie skończę, ale będą do niej wielokrotnie wracał.

The Witness 4/5: Spíše než simulátor chůze křížený s logickými puzzly jde o regulérní IQ test, který vám/nám jednou pro vždy dokáže, jak moc jste/jsme oproti Jonathanu Blowovi hloupoučcí. A přitom to z jeho strany nepůsobí jako vychloubání se.

Nejprve si však odbydu zápory. Největším je paradoxně samotný ostrov, jakkoli není nezajímavé po něm bloumat a objevovat jeho různorodá přenádherná zákoutí, tak tomu chybí nějaká jednotící linie, interaktivní prvek... Prostě něco, co by ho činilo něčím více než pouhým herním hubem propojujícím jednotlivé puzzly a tedy do značné míry nutným zlem. Nepůsobí jako nedílná součást hry, ale jako něco, co bylo přidáno až po vytvoření všech puzzlů, aby to mělo aspoň nějaký rámec. A občasné střípky myšlenek a citátů velikánů to v tomto ohledu nijak nevytrhnou.

A teď ke kladům. Což je v tomto případě synonymum pro puzzly. Je až nepochopitelné, jak se na tak primitivním nápadu (propojení bodu A a B) dá vystavět tak neuvěřitelná variabilita puzzlů, které postupně pracují se vším co vám přijde na mysl; bludišti, oddělováním v rámci mřížky, počítáním, pamětí, prostředím, perspektivou, dualitou, hrou světla atd.

Po celou hru se opakuje shodný vzorec. Je vám předložen směšně jednoduchý puzzle, který vás seznámí s nějakým principem. Následuje několik dalších puzzlů, které ten princip rozšiřují a dávají mu (nikde nezmíněná, musíte je vypozorovat) pravidla (kupříkladu oddělit bílé body od černých). Následují čím dál těžší, které toho pak do mrtě využívají a zavaří vám mozek. Až/pokud je pokoříte, tak se přesunete k jiné části ostrova, kde je představen zcela nový koncept, který však vychází z již použitých předchozích pravidel. A tak dále a dále a dále (údajně je jich cca 650), až máte nebývale komplexní puzzly s tisícem pravidel. A to celé, aniž by kde byl jediný náznak nápovědy, vysvětlení či výslovného řečení co máte dělat, protože se dané principy učíte a objevujete je skrze samotné hraní. Prostě vyšší dívčí herního designu v praxi.

Čili čistě jako soubor hravých (kolik hráčů objeví ty týkajících se černých obelisků?), nápaditých a pekelně těžkých puzzlů, které vydrží na pěkných pár bezesných nocí, obstojí The Witness na výtečnou. Jako hra, která se krom těch puzzlů snaží i o hledání hlubšího smyslu a vůbec tak nějak „něčeho navíc“, aby to právě nebyl jen soubor puzzlů, už to tak slavné není. Každopádně pokud vám puzzly nejsou cizí, tak by byl hřích tento výjimečný počin minout, jakkoli ho budete nesnášet, protože „přece sakra není možné, že tohle není správné řešení, to musí být nějaký bug či co, grrr“.
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The most satisfying video game I've ever played....Clearly designed by geniuses. I spent hours just marveling at the design of the game, as well as hunting for non-obvious additional puzzles. I became so engrossed at one point that I began seeing patterns, shapes and puzzles in the real world, reminiscent of the ones in the game.

In my lifetime, I've never played a game quite like it, and am left with a sad and sinking feeling that I will never play one like it again.

The Witness is a nearly perfect environmental puzzle game for the first 15 or so hours. It's puzzles are very well designed, there are a truly shocking number of secrets to find around the world, and the environment is genuinely visually stunning. The game is far from perfect however. Over the span of a single hour, The Witness went from my all time favorite puzzle game ever, to something I genuinely couldn't imagine picking up again. It's end-game puzzles are either extremely obtuse, pointlessly frustrating, or both.

My advice to those considering buying The Witness are:

1) Don't try to 100% the game. Hell, don't even try for 90%. Get as far as you can while still having fun. The moment you stop having fun is when you should put the game down, because it'll genuinely drive you insane.
2) If you get stuck on a difficult puzzle, don't hesitate to look up a hint or solution. Chances are the game didn't communicate what you need to do in order to properly solve it, and there's no sense in ruining good experiences with nearly impossible puzzles.
3) If you come across a puzzle with symbols you don't recognize, that's the game telling you to go somewhere else. While the game is technically "open world", it tries to lock some sections behind difficult and unfamiliar puzzles.
4) The Witness has no accessibility options, so if you have a sensory impairment (specifically hearing, sight, or color blindness), many puzzles (including some needed to progress through the game) will be entirely impossible to solve without help.

If I could just forget the entire last section of The Witness, I would, and this would still be my favorite puzzle game ever. But I can't, so all I can do is recommend others not make the same mistake as me. Don't try to 100% the game. If you can buy it on sale, do it, and only play for as long as you can handle. Leave the game there, and remember the good parts.

先说下其他测评普遍提到的晕3D问题。在下常年晕3D，羞辱，垃圾4甚至MC都无法常玩。
这款游戏一上来也晕的不行，但是请调整游戏设置。主要问题就是默认视野太小，请尝试调到110以上，开启垂直同步。一般的晕3D问题都会解决。
游戏性方面：一开始：这一笔画游戏3岁难度辣鸡辣鸡美滋滋；中期：卧槽这符号啥意思，卧槽这图形有毒！！；后期：哪里有彩蛋哪里有隐藏题，老夫还要做！！！
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There is a considerable amount of misunderstanding surrounding the description of this game. Many people see the grid puzzles on panels and assume that this is the essence of the gameplay. In this review, I aim to illuminate parts of the nature of the game, providing you with a clearer understanding before diving into it. There are no spoilers about the story.

Before delving into the review, it's worth briefly mentioning games such as The Talos Principle or Portal. These games follow a linear structure with intricate puzzles that are largely self-contained. Players can solve one puzzle today and return ten days later to tackle another, making the gameplay quite straightforward. The quality of these games predominantly hinges on the complexity and ingenuity of the puzzles.

On the other hand, The Witness is clearly inspired by the Myst series and takes a quite unconventional approach that we aren't really used to. The journey starts with the character who has 'amnesia' and needs to explore an island to figure out what is going on.

- Part 1: Intro -

The island is divided into multiple regions, each featuring a set of challenges grouped around a common theme. If the player encounters difficulty with a particular set, they have the flexibility to bypass it and explore other parts of the island. This design creates a highly non-linear experience and balances exploration with puzzle solving by allowing players to gradually expand their knowledge of the world and return to previously unsolved challenges. Importantly, players are not penalized for being unable to complete a puzzle; progress can still be made, and the game can be successfully completed even with many of them left unsolved.

Now, not all puzzles are easy to identify. The most common ones are found on panels of various forms within specific regions, typically grouped together and must be completed in a sequential order, with the complexity of the puzzles gradually increasing. Trial and error is employed for the simple challenges and logic is applied for the more complicated ones. This process aids the player in making sense of their rules. However, in some cases, the solution does not depend solely on the information presented on the panel, but on the environment as well.

On the opposite end, there are also numerous hidden challenges that are not presented in the standard panel form and require from the player to interact with the environment in some way, offering a welcome break from the panel puzzle-solving monotony.

The game's story unfolds through scattered audio logs across the island. Instead of straightforwardly conveying the narrative to players, these logs are deliberately enigmatic, presenting the story as quotes from influential thinkers. The player will also come across a theater and watch video clips.

As we can see, The Witness isn't just a sequence of puzzles; rather, it features multiple layers of puzzles, suggesting a more complex and intricate structure to the gameplay.

- Part 2: Bird's eye view -

So what type of game is The Witness? While solving the panel puzzles may seem pretty straightforward, discovering requires the player to slow down and be very observant of the surroundings. The audio logs are scattered randomly, and so are some panels. Many puzzles are hidden in plain sight, and there are also hidden rooms with extra puzzles. The more you play, the more you'll come across things that you missed because you weren't paying enough attention. Rest assured, there's a lot to discover, more than you could ever imagine. If you are stuck or frustrated, you are encouraged to take a break—perhaps move on to another area, or simply pause for a moment to enjoy the serene landscape. Its phenomenal attention to detail makes it feel like a piece of art; in a sense, it is. Ultimately, it is a game that constantly reminds us that we should live in the moment. It's peaceful, relaxing, meditative, and challenging at the same time. It's one of those experiences where the process of solving puzzles and uncovering the island's secrets is as rewarding as reaching the end.

The Witness also explores the process of learning. The game throws players into an adventure with no explicit instructions, setting the tone for a self-guided experience. Most regions introduce an independent and simple core concept. Upon completing one area, players are confident that they understand how to apply the rules learned to another one. Yet, as the game progresses, these concepts seamlessly merge, requiring application of knowledge across different areas.

This mirrors the learning process, akin to assembling smaller building blocks. The game's quality lies in refreshing the joy of learning, reminding players that learning is about discovery and understanding, a sentiment often overlooked in contemporary education. Consequently, it makes for an excellent choice for children.

- Part 3: Outro -

Now, as with most titles, this one too has its shortcomings. Solving those panel puzzles can and will get tedious at some point. The reason for this is twofold: first, there are too many of them, and second, these puzzles aren't as sophisticated as the complex ones you'll encounter in games like The Talos Principle or Portal. Consequently, solving them doesn't feel very satisfying, although this is probably subjective. In a sense, the game distributes its difficulty across the entire island. Lastly, some puzzles can be a bit trickier or challenging, almost reaching the point of being unfair. Even if you know the rules, you may find yourself unable to solve them. All this reminds us of the challenges inherent in learning something new; the smaller building blocks are often boring and may be the source of frustration.

Having said all that, The Witness stands out as one of the few games I've played that didn't leave me feeling intellectually inadequate. This isn't by accident; it's by design. The introduction of panel puzzle mechanics, through solving puzzles of increasing difficulty, essentially serves as a tutorial. However, it never really feels like a traditional one. As a result, the primary challenge in most situations lies not in the complexity of the tasks but in the player's understanding of the rules and, consequently, the world around them. Also, unlike traditional adventure games like Myst, there's no need for "pixel hunting", as it's always evident what you can click on.

It's important to emphasize that this game isn't for everyone. If you approach it solely as a race to solve puzzles on panels and rush towards the end, chances are it won't resonate with you. However, if you're the type of player who relishes taking their time, finding joy in games rich with exploration, and appreciating them as an art form, then The Witness might be the perfect fit for you. That's the reason the game doesn't place stringent demands. On one hand, it presents a world, encouraging exploration and the discovery of numerous elements. On the other hand, players are at liberty to finish the game without necessarily uncovering many of its intricacies. However, by doing so, you'll likely miss out on understanding why you are on this island in the first place.

Therefore, my suggestion is to take it slow and uncover as much as you can. As you delve deeper, your knowledge will likely grow, leading to a clearer and more coherent grasp of the narrative. In the end, while understanding the story should be relatively straightforward, discerning the deeper meaning(s) of the game is not entirely obvious :)

Good luck!

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** If you have a color vision deficiency or are tone deaf, some puzzles will pose an extra challenge. You might have to look them up or have someone else help you.

Me encantó el Talos Principle. No tienen realmente que ver porque son conceptos completamente distintos e igualmente disfrutables por separado. Quería dejar esto claro desde el principio :)

Este juego es tan alucinante que cada uno lo percibe a su manera. Hay gente que dice que le ha cambiado su forma de ver la vida y admito que conmigo lo ha conseguido al menos un poco. Aprender por el mero placer que supone. Ya está, ese es todo el juego. Y a la vez ese es TODO el juego.

Recomiendo The Witness a todo el mundo. No es necesario ser fan de los puzzles, solo tener la mente abierta, ser observador y aprender de la lógica que te plantea. El ensayo y error es la base. Los +500 puzzles pueden parecer abrumadores pero si caes en las redes te parecerán pocos. De forma muy acertada, he leido que es un Metroidvania que en vez de los "power-up" es el conocimiento el que te abre nuevos caminos en el mapa. Cada vez que descubres cómo funciona un nuevo concepto en el juego te sientes como si tuvieses doble salto. Empiezas a añadir formas de pensar a la resolución de puzzles. Puzzles que antes no podías resolver de repente son de lo más sencillo.

El diseño es sin duda lo mejor del juego. El diseño es el que "habla" ♥♥♥ el jugador, el que nos guía por la isla de forma natural. Puedes vagar por la isla todo lo que quieras y seguir aprendiendo. El diseño es EL JUEGO. Descúbrelo tú mismo.

Solo se juega una vez a The Witness por primera vez. Me arrepiento de mirar guías en algunos momentos porque hay descubrimientos sumamente placenteros que me perdí por leer en una web (y que hubiese podido resolver por mí mismo). Por suerte pude disfrutar de muchos otros pero te aconsejo que no lo hagas como hice yo.

Déjate atrapar. Jamás hubiese perdido 20 minutos en escribir esto si no fuese uno de los mejores juegos a los que he jugado nunca.

30分钟，开了个隐藏门，然后上楼看游戏工作室，看风景，跟吹哥的视角转了一圈，游戏自己把自己关了。我悟了。

After playing this game for almost 50 hours, I feel like I've now seen enough of it to give it a fair review.

I never leave reviews, but I feel the need to for this game since I believe that it is a masterpiece. Even after 50 hours of playing, I'm still continuing to discover things that blow my mind. I really don't know what else to say without spoiling anything about the puzzles. I'll just say that at LEAST 95% of this game would be impossible without the island. People who are claiming that the island is useless are just plain wrong, and almost every single thing in the environment is placed there for a reason.

Also, people who are claiming that it's a "walking simulator" or a "$0.99 phone game" are completely wrong as well. It's obvious that they haven't gotten past the starting area. If there actually are "phone games" like this then please point me in their direction. I'd love to purchase them.

The Witness is a game about perspectives.

The stated objective of The Witness is to explore an abandoned island and solve puzzles. The real objective of The Witness is to gain knowledge, and understand why things are the way they are. In my time playing The Witness, I became a scientist, an architect, a cartographer, a mathematician, and an artist. The Witness feels perfectly crafted and manufactured, to its own detriment. The Witness is difficult, and uninviting, and intentionally so. The Witness is not an accessible game, and shuns players who are colour blind or hard of hearing at different points.

The Witness's inaccessability doesn't feel like an oversight however, when playing The Witness you will feel like the game doesn't care about you as a player. It will not assist you if you will need help. At points it feels like The Witness is laughing at you. But after a long fight, I won against The Witness.

And the laugh I had was so good.

This game won't be for everyone, and even if you like it that enjoyment may not last for the entire game. You must have a lot of patience and you must enjoy puzzles to even have a chance of getting very far in The Witness - but while my enjoyment ran out towards the end (I like puzzles, but not that much!), I still consider this to have been a worthwhile use of my time. The island is uncanny and atmospheric, as long as you don't expect it to feel real or alive: it's not natural but a constructed space for you to ponder questions and mysteries. And yes, there is a touch of "All of this is deep, innit?" to The Witness, but if you can take this in your stride, The Witness's island is worth a visit.

一个站在金字塔顶端的人。
同样作为游戏程序员我只能五体投地才能表示对他的景仰与谦卑。

08年《braid》横空出世，当时消息闭塞并不知道这款游戏，两年后高中毕业假期四处搜刮游戏，偶然看到解谜游戏braid有人推荐，便试了试。当我收集完拼图知道世界的真相时，braid上升到我心中NO.1的神作，没有之一.
在之后的机械迷城还有limbo，虽然都是独立解谜游戏的佼佼者但都无法让我达到braid给我的震撼。可谓曾经沧海。

我甚至怀疑作者受到了神的眷顾，
赋予它一瞬间的灵感，
才能想出如此精妙的关卡设计，
游戏规则以及晦涩但内涵深远的剧情。
braid让我清楚认识到规则是游戏的灵魂。对规则的加减，变形会让世界天翻地覆。
就像死亡笔记剧情之所以风靡一时，因为它有着几十条定义这个游戏的规则。

于是我陷入了个人崇拜。
想要急切的玩到作者的下个作品然而一等就是7年。
长到我都忘了在等这个游戏，以至于我知道the witness发售的时候已经过了9个月。当时立刻全价买了下来。

在游戏作为艺术品的大前提下，游戏的灵魂与内涵汲取于作者的思想深度和艺术修养，作者决定了游戏的天花板。


有的人是顶级开发者也是烦人的引战喷子，有的人游戏大卖之后用来买车买房走上人生巅峰，而有的人赚了大钱却一股脑投入下一个游戏的制作。一做就是7,8年之久。


作为游戏开发者更能深刻体会到这个数字的意义。是死刑。
世界日新月异，硬件提升，引擎更新换代，玩家对游戏的挑剔越来越高。太多令人不安的因素。足以让一个作品夭折。
好在the witness是花作者用braid赚来的钱。如果是在大公司或者投资人的财力下，它的结局只有一个要么项目被砍要么被撤资。
Blow在采访中说他不会刻意注意完成的时间，只要游戏没有达到他要的效果就不能与玩家见面，那是对他的侮辱。


我强烈建议独立游戏爱好者和游戏业的人都看一遍 独立游戏大电影-Indie Game The Movie[www.bilibili.com]。
反正当时我看完是泪流满面。
里面介绍了几个独立游戏的开山鼻祖的背后故事(Fez, super meat boy以撒结合的制作人, braid)
Blow在braid被捧上独立游戏神坛后这么说：

“当你花大量时间制作了一个精美的作品时，你不由得希望玩家能理解作品的内涵与思想，然而令人沮丧的是就是游戏的正面评价，各种10分，9分，人们说这游戏太好玩了，列举种种优点，然而大部分解读都很肤浅，并没有人真正的理解你。”

说着，blow的眼神深邃的望着前方，然后抹了下眼眶。一种站身处巅峰知音难觅的寂寥使得拍摄气氛一度压抑。
事实上，blow由于自己的偏执和渴望玩家理解，去一个个回复，纠正玩家的看法，被玩家一度认为是个固执己见装腔作势的话痨，变态天才。为此他抑郁了3,4个月。


当看到the witness面世的时候，我更加心疼Blow。高达40美元的定价，国区112。直逼3A大作。而这是一款小众的不能再小众的游戏。事实上我在买了之后由于工作繁忙并没有进入游戏。直到半年后的今天才有空拾起，我翻遍了大部分评论略过剧透部分知道它曾一度好评低至60%，随着时间推移才逐渐到80%。
再回到the witness本身。先说初体验，之后随着游戏进程更新。
涉及剧透

因为晕3d，进展缓慢。
曾经我从不晕3d，fps各种玩，知道我遇到了辐射4.辐射4玩了3个小时，后来就没在碰过了。
我以为我只晕辐射四。。直到我玩了the witness。1小时后，身体有了反应，头开始疼。
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目前进度是从屋子出来 遇到个门上面的连线看不懂，后来在后面有循序渐进的教学，搞懂了连线规则，把门打开了，看到了个奇怪的图案，值得注意的是窗户从底下看像幅画，不知道什么寓意。
后来出去开了一个双色连线，但是有个板子有锁，还没找到在哪开。在往旁边走遇到了一个六边形的板子，没有连线提示。不知道怎么用，但是不小心把一个板子的图案关掉了。不知道怎么关的=。=。 发现个俄罗斯方块的机关门，还不清楚怎么开。捡到个录音带。内容说的是开普勒和牛顿涉及科学和认知，署名居然是爱因斯坦。无意间发现河里的水管能连线 飞出一堆光效到一个很远的地方。还搞不懂。暂时就这些。日后更。
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开船转了小岛一圈，把初始地方的激光完成了，射向了山顶。树屋那里弄的基本差不多了，俄罗斯方块那条路没解开。限时门跑不过去。目前遇到的集中谜题分为1连接点把所有的点吃掉2分割黑白3星星类的，需要分组一般是两两一组。4俄罗斯方块，暂时不知道解法5躲开阴影。 岛上的黑柱子目前是暗示藏在岛上的机关的，那些融入进环境中的连线题，上面说到的光效会飞到柱子上而解锁图形。

一不小心这个初步测评写了3个小时。。一定是我爱的深沉。

The Witness is a puzzle game. Specifically, it's a line puzzle game. If you don't think you'll enjoy solving hundreds of line puzzles, then don't bother playing this game. It's beautiful to look at, and the puzzles are certainly clever, but there's nothing else going on. There is no story, but more importantly, there is no reason to keep solving puzzles. I understand that's enough for some people who really love puzzles, but it wasn't enough to keep me interested.

I really enjoyed the first few areas of this game. The puzzles were fun, clever, and relatively quick. However, I found the later areas frustrating. I could solve the puzzles by drawing them out on a sheet of paper, but that wasn't fun. It felt like doing math homework. After spending a few minutes drawing out a puzzle, your reward is another slightly different puzzle. Then a dozen more similar puzzles after that. I think this game would have been significantly more engaging if it had far fewer puzzles and more to explore.

Ultimately, I didn't finish the game, and that's why I don't recommend it. I solved approximately 350 puzzles and made it to the treehouse area. I didn't find it a good use of my relatively limited gaming time. There are certainly many things to like about the game, but I just didn't have much fun playing it once I got through the first few areas. I tried to push through to see if the later areas were more compelling, but they just got more and more tedious.

Schönes Spiel. Wunder schöne Landschaften, teilweise recht knackige Rätsel.
Das Spielprinzip, bleibt das ganz Spiel über gleich: Verbinde vom Start zum Ziel mit der Linie.
Jedoch sind sehr viele Abwechselungen in der zu erfüllenden Nebenbedingungen und auch in der Herrangehensweise an die Rätsel. Zbsp. Sound-, Schatten-, Lichträtsel.

Kann ich jedem empfehlen, der auch nur ein wenig Lust auf Rätsel hat.

The Witness nos lleva a una isla en la que la única manera de desentrañar los misterios son resolviendo Puzzles,este juego lo que se diferencia de los demás del género es que la dificultad es diferente para cada persona.El juego en si es un misterio pero conforme a ir activando los 7 lasers iremos encontrando pistas que van a dar un significado a por que estamos en la isla y como llegamos ahí.Me costó 44 hs y todavía no complete la parte más desafiante del juego y la verdad siento que valió cada centavo este juego,además otro factor que me llevo a comprarlo fue el documental de Noclip del juego y Rediscovering Mistery que explora los juegos que son un misterio.Valió cada puto centavo

10/10

Для начала предупреждение: в этой игре нет яркого сюжета с поворотами и рыданиями, лёгкого пути прогресса и получения удовольствия или совсем разнообразного геймплея (кроме как действительно увлекательного изучения мира и решения паззлов, подробнее ниже). Так что любители ярких и быстрых впечатлений -- это точно не для вас, пройдите мимо, если понравилась картинка.

Эта игра про то, как человек впадает в гармонию с окружающим миром через понимание его правил и принципов. Вы не просто решаете паззлы, сначала простые, потом сложные. Игра просто даст вам возможность их решать, а также расставит перед вами множество различных панелек. Изучая остров, вы будете каждый раз видеть новую обстановку и новый тип паззлов, каждый раз сначала абсолютно не понимать, чего же от вас хотят, а потом осознавать, что решение -- вот же оно, получать восторг от самого себя, решившего эту загадку, и восторг тем, как суть этого паззла гармонирует с самим островом -- остров показывает, как решать паззл, паззл даёт дальше изучить остров. На нём никогда нет пустых локаций и тупиков -- раз можно пройти, то там что-то есть, надо только найти: секретный сложный паззл, подсказка к концу игры, или аудиозапись с цитатой учёного, по настоящему религиозного человека, думающего о сути веры, или философа -- опять прекрасно гармонирующие с сутью паззлов, местности, природы, острова и вашего места в нём. Наоборот, встретив сложный паззл, стоит пройти мимо -- вдруг где-то есть проще, после чего этот монстр элементарен? Даже ваш прогресс отображается в мире, только надо найти, где ( Смотрите внимательно на озеро )!

В качестве примера, давайте подумаем, как же в этой игре может быть цель и вообще конец? Откуда игрок его увидит? Всё очень просто: пройдя любую локацию до конца, вы включите лазер к вершине горы -- что сразу подсказывает, что так надо сделать не раз, и что там вас ждёт вознаграждение. Как решаются паззлы с точками на линиях? Как только вы выйдете из замка и пройдёте вперёд, в полупостроенном домике вас ждёт введение.

Когда вы так пройдёте 2-3 локации, каждая новая будет нести уже предвкушение радости новых задач, нового мышления, новой идеи, новой красоты в природе -- а остров действительно красив! -- , новой гармонии. Вся это радость изучения, познания и восторжения миром -- здесь, кстати, совсем не большим, но очень насыщенным -- вот главная тема игры. Я уже набегал на этом острове, где от берега до берега всего полторы-две минуты, уже 60 часов, и мне всё ещё осталось 4 головоломки (хотя я уже и знаю, где они, и идею решения). Паззлы не спрятаны, и даже секретные паззлы, как только вы их обнаружите -- что совсем не сложно, но скорее всего сильно вас удивит, будут иметь честный реестр и территорию.

Есть ли у игры минусы? Конечно, если хочется просто расслабиться, игра не понравится -- нужно изучать мир, крутить головой и думать над решениями. Также, иногда вся эта суть гармонии рушится, когда вы не можете решить паззл, как вы не стараетесь. Игра балансирует это тем, что можно смело уйти в другую часть острова, или вообще закрыть игру и пойти заняться чем-то другим, в то время как ваш разум сам составит несколько идей к успешному решению, но это не сводит эффект к нулю. Нет глубокого сюжета -- да, совсем нет, хотя в самом конце ( непосредственно перед и дальше за первой концовкой) становится понятно, почему этот остров такой странный и какова его природа. Да и несколько паззлов сложны только тем, что раздражают.

Эта игра, по моему мнению, один из идеалов в мире настоящих паззлов. Так что если хотите испытать ту радость познания, которую испытывает настоящий учёный, философ, верующий, хотя вы всего-то наслаждаетесь красотой острова и проводите линии -- смело вперёд, оно того стоит!

Now I see puzzles even in my grandma's face

滑屏解锁模拟器2016。
或
一笔画线小游戏500合1终极加强版。

I will always adore a clever puzzler. The Witness is the embodiment of clever puzzling. Sure, it will not be for everyone. In fact, the exact things people tend to dislike are the things I absolutely love about this game. A very simple idea, a grid panel, yet you get presented with dozens of different ways these panels have solutions that really becomes not the same repetitive puzzle, but an exploration of ideas.

I did not find it repetitive. In fact, around every corner I would get blown away by how different a new puzzle could feel. The island itself becomes a part of the puzzle and you get to know so much of it intimately. There are no tricks, no cheap shots, in fact some of the more irritating moments you may realize is you overcomplicating the whole thing.

An extraordinary amount of love went into crafting this game, and once you dive in and realize that it's not giving you the same thing over and over, but that it's trying to show you a world from perspectives you may not have expected, it will become a world you really want to explore. I thoroughly enjoyed my time on this island, found it well worth the $40, and could not disagree that for some it is just not going to be your cup of tea.

I see a lot of negative reviews from people who are missing a key peice of the puzzle with only 1 or 4 hours played. There is way more to this game than what those people think this game actually is. Layers of mystery stacked on top of one another and once you finally understand you'll just want more, and the game offers way more at every step. Nothing is what it simply seems on the first impression. And for your own sake of discovery, experience, and enjoyment do not look things up or look at guides, let the game take you onto an adventrue. If you get stuck becuase you don't understand something, simply move on to another area.